Celtic youngster Kieran Tierney went from boot boy to wonder kid and is now pivotal for Brendan Rodgers

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There's a golden piece of （映画の）フィート数 featuring a group of Celtic kids perched on the home （法廷の）裁判 at Parkhead who are utterly hypnotised by the mere presence of Shunsuke Nakamura.

発射 nine years ago, it’s been watched tens of thousands of times since because it ends with the 広大な／多数の／重要な Japanese 選ぶing out one smiling 直面する in the （人が）群がる and 手渡すing him his boots for 存在 the best player at training that day.

Kieran Tierney’s grin is 即時に recognisable and it serves to remind you that all heroes needed heroes of their own at one 行う／開催する／段階.

Kieran Tierney has gone from boot boy to wonder kid at Celtic and is now a 星／主役にする player

But anyone assuming the player who subsequently had 17 English 首相 League clubs on his 追跡する on Tuesday night 簡単に ロケット／急騰するd to stardom from that moment on would be mistaken.

Although みなすd good enough to have his talents hot-housed at St Ninian’s 第２位 soon after, Tierney had 疑問s, serious 疑問s, if it was ever going to happen for him at Celtic Park.

‘There was a time when I wasn’t getting a game,’ he 反映するd. ‘At 14 or 15, we went to the school that Celtic sent you to.

‘It was at that 行う／開催する／段階 when Scotland starts coming about but I never got 選ぶd for Scotland. A lot of times when you’re not in the Scotland squad, you’re not really playing club football either. Times like that were very hard.’

Brendan Rodgers has been impressed by how much Tierney has 進歩d at Celtic Park

A 欠如（する） of 安全 did not help this 沈むing feeling. As hard as it is now to fathom, Celtic’s かかわり合い to Tierney in those days fell some way short of 存在 cast アイロンをかける.

‘It was getting 近づく the end of the school 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 and a lot of the players had heard about their 契約s,’ he explained. ‘Myself and Aaron Comrie, who I will hopefully be playing against on Saturday (with St Johnstone) neither of us heard anything till very, very late on.

‘We got a 取引，協定 in the end but the others got a longer-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 取引，協定. They got three-year 取引，協定s at the start and we got one year.

‘At times like that, you are looking at other 選択s, whether it is to go away working or try and find another team. So 青年 football wasn’t all plain sailing for me.’

In such circumstances, there are but two 選択s. Disappear into the 影をつくる／尾行するs. Or come out swinging.

‘It made me work harder than ever,’ Tierney explained. ‘I was more hungry to get a new を取り引きする Celtic, to try and get on the same 取引，協定 as my team-mates and try to get game time.

‘A few times both of us had to step 負かす／撃墜する and play with the younger ones just to get game time. We really worked hard and broke our way in 結局.’

To this day, he is not 完全に sure why the feelings toward him were lukewarm. Modesty 妨げるs him from 説 so but it can’t have been a 欠如（する） of ability. His best guess is that a 欠如（する） of physicality was held against him.

‘It happens to an awful lot,’ he mused. ‘特に at that age if you are not growing 急速な／放蕩な like the other guys who play your position.

Tierney more than held his own in the 最近の 支持する／優勝者s League 衝突／不一致 with Bayern Munich

‘People grow between 14 and 16 at different 率s and it does seem to be the bigger, more physical players who are in the team.

‘It is not always 権利 but I just knew I had to work hard. That is why I am so 感謝する for my family because it’s times like that when you really need them and they were 広大な／多数の／重要な.

‘I was doing gym work and football training but it was the way I was doing it. I was making sure I was trying to run more than anyone else and be the best I could be. But at that age there is only a 確かな 量 that you can do さもなければ you get 少しの 傷害s.’

Had Tierney slipped through their 逮捕する, Celtic would never have forgiven themselves.

Within minutes of making his debut at Dens Park as a 17-year-old, his pedigree was 明らかな.

The narrative has long-since 転換d from the joy of seeing a home-spun talent nail 負かす／撃墜する a place in the 味方する. やめる 簡単に, he is the best Scottish player of his 世代.

決定するd to stay at Celtic for the foreseeable 未来, his 社債 with the 支持者s he has frequently stood beside is infrangible. In that sense, Brendan Rodgers 見解（をとる）s him as 存在 類似の to the late, lamented Tommy 燃やすs.

‘That is special because I know how special Tommy is to the club,’ Tierney said.

‘It wouldn’t be what it is today without him. For me to be について言及するd in the same 宣告，判決 as the gaffer said is brilliant for me. But I’ve got a very, very long way to go to even get 近づく what Tommy did for this club.’

Tierney speaks 井戸／弁護士席 and 心から and you have no 推論する／理由 to 疑問 a word of it. Certainly not when he is so unmoved by the trappings of success.

The youngster recently 調印するd a new 取引，協定 but is 手配中の，お尋ね者 by a host of 首相 League clubs

Upon 調印 a bumper 取引，協定 a year ago, the extent of his largesse was to buy his parents a house. It （機の）カム with one 条件.

‘I still live at home with them,’ he laughed. ‘ I’ll be there for a few years yet. I can’t do anything for myself yet!

‘We still live in Motherwell, a couple of minutes from where we lived before.

‘It keeps me grounded in some ways, living under the same roof as your mum and dad. They are still in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金. My mum still says I leave my dishes in the room or don’t bring my washing 負かす／撃墜する. It’s just always been like that. Nothing has changed with my family. It’s all good.’

In Tierney’s 事例／患者, that’s a major understatement. Against Bayern Munich on Tuesday, the magnificent Arjen Robben, a 人物／姿／数字 the young Celt had only 以前 遭遇（する）d on his games console, knew he’d been in a serious personal joust.

‘We didn’t 勝利，勝つ, so you can’t be too happy,’ Tierney 反映するd.

‘I tried to make it hard for him, get の近くに to him and I gave it my best.

‘You learn a lot in these games. It is hard to keep up to their 速度 because they (Bayern) are playing at that 速度 every week. For years they have been playing like that and for me 存在 so young to play against the 最高の，を越す players will 利益 me.’

Already 保証するd of his place in Celtic folklore as part of last season’s Invincibles 味方する, the significance of tomorrow’s trip to Perth is not lost on him.

避ける 敗北・負かす and Brendan Rodgers’ 味方する will go 63 国内の games unbeaten and break the 100-year British 記録，記録的な／記録する held by Willie Maley’s Celtic 味方する.

A young man who once 恐れるd his size might 持つ／拘留する him 支援する will never tire of such lofty 業績／成就s.

‘明白に we didn’t know too much about the 記録，記録的な／記録する a couple of games ago,’ Tierney said. ‘But it is 存在 spoken about now. We are not going in to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the 記録，記録的な／記録する, we are going in to play our game and hopefully get the result.’