Kulusevski: « Important to show that dreams can become reality »
It has been a wet school closure in the morning but when the players in the selected teams P14 White and F13 and F14 in Hässelby SK focused all directives on the football field, the sun has looked forward.
The girl group does an exercise where they will close their eyes and dribble themselves, and then dribble with acceleration.
– Don’t be afraid of the speed, you have it in you, the instructor from the Stockholm Football Association calls.
A few meters away, the boys team practices fully on overpower and spinfinter- and gets peep: « Good Antoni, more like that! » « Lovely Benjamin! »
Injured national team star dejan kulusevski Follows the training from the side. He says it would of course have been even more fun to play football with the kids. But standing up on these meetings, which the Stockholm Football Association organizes together with a partner, is important.
– It’s the most selfish thing you can do, to help other people because it makes one feel good yourself. Personally, I think it is important to show that you are one of them, that you are a man who has worked hard and made your dreams become a reality and that it can happen just every one.
The union’s communications manager Gittan Ahonen Gunnarzon says that the purpose is to give football an extra spice, for both players and leaders.
– Giving many children and young people an opportunity to play football with someone they look up to, but also get an organized training with my colleagues who are very well educated.
That it became Hässelby Now has an explanation.
– I lived ten minutes away so it feels fun to come home and meet the kids. It gives me a lot that they can see me here too and not just on TV, says the former BP player.
That the meeting is appreciated by the players is obvious.
– So, I have taken pictures two centimeters from him, says Ruth Stender lyrically.
– It’s another thing to see him on a match. Getting to meet him and play for him, it’s incredible, says Naomi Ekengren.
“I want you to challengewins ball. » The training has high intensity and the girls sound as happy when DN asks them to describe it as the meeting with the world star.
– They showed how to move forward in the development, more than taking one step at a time so you took a little different, but still focused on one thing, says Ruth, who is now « giant » at the summer holidays cup in Åland.
Zein Barrgouth liked the fine exercises best but also thinks he learned a lot about how to think in different football situations.
– And what Dejan said about scanning the whole plan.
When it gets time For question time with the star, Zein wonders: « How’s it going in Tottenham? »
– We won the Europa League, so it was a good end to the season. But I couldn’t play because I have a hole in my knee.
The children are also told that Kulusevski would probably have become a fisherman on an island outside Africa if he had not become a football professional, that pasta from Italy is the favorite dish, that the most difficult time in his career was when he, as a 15-year-old, moved without the family to Italy and that it is an incredible feeling when 70,000 in the audience cheer.
– Although the best thing is that in the middle of the match, it feels like no one is watching you. You’re in this bubble. You are just yourself, you enjoy, you play football. Exactly the same thing you do here today.
Naomi dreams of Becoming a football professional, Ruth with though she also wants to become a doctor and Zein reveals that his dream is to become a tennis professional. Dejan Kulusevski shares his best tips if you want to follow in his footsteps.
– You are most important, that you exercise hard to get better every day. Do not focus as much on the result, and have as much fun as possible.
The national team player writes autographs and takes pictures, but just when everyone stands for group picture, large drops start to fall. Everyone gets a little hurry to get off the pitch, as does Dejan Kulusevski. But other children who have seen the star stop him and he gives of his time.
He reflects on the day.
– I hope they think it is fun to play football but that if you want to be really good at something in life then it takes millions of hours.
