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Two hours before I played for Nigeria at the Under-17 World Championship in Finland in 2003, our jerseys arrived. We had been waiting for our names to be printed on the back – when they came, we were

What was the first game you ever attended? My first Nottingham Forest game wasn’t actually until 1994 and it was against Manchester City at Maine Road. My dad’s a Liverpool fan and, living in Worksop,

You joined current club Angel City in 2024. How have you found LA so far? Life over here is amazing. The weather has been something I said would be different to Manchester, it’s taken some getting use

Speaking to footballers, especially high-profile ones, can sometimes be difficult. Wary of revealing too much, some of them say very little at all. That isn’t the case with Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernand

What do you remember about your early life in Burundi, where there was a civil war taking place? I wasn’t aware of it, so my surroundings felt normal to me. As a kid, I remember collecting plastic bag

GARETH SOUTHGATE “I played with Gareth at Aston Villa, and after the last FA Cup final at the old Wembley, when we lost to Chelsea in 2000, we had a post-final dinner. Having lost, you can imagine, it