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Jamal Musiala: ‘How English do I feel? How German? You could say 50-50’
Bayern Munich forward on his strange route into English football, declaring for Germany and facing Leverkusen
Don’t try this at home. It was October 2010 when a dad turned up at Southampton’s St Mary’s Stadium with his seven-year-old son. It wasn’t match day, however. The dad was just looking for a game for his boy. Recently arrived from Germany, they hadn’t a clue about the English football scene. It seemed natural to head down to the nearest professional club and ask to play.
Which is how Jamal Musiala, Germany’s generational talent, took his first steps to becoming Bayern Munich’s key creative playmaker – in Southampton, a vulnerable young boy, without a word of English, looking up at his dad, desperately trying to find somewhere to play.
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