5 things you did not know about new Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte
Aymeric Laporte has 完全にするd his move from 運動競技の Bilbao to Manchester City for a 取引,協定 believed to be 価値(がある) £57million.
Here, 圧力(をかける) 協会 Sport looks at five things you may not know about Laporte.
Yet to 勝利,勝つ a 上級の cap
Laporte made his 運動競技の debut in 2012 (Adam Davy/Empics).
Agen-born Laporte, whose 運動競技の debut (機の)カム in 2012, has played for フラン’s under-17s, under-18s, under-19s and under-21s but is yet to make a 上級の international 外見. After 憶測 that he could switch 忠誠 to Spain, he was called up by Les Bleus boss Didier Deschamps for the first time in September 2016 ahead of World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and Holland, games he then sat through as an 未使用の 代用品,人. The same 適用するd when he (機の)カム into the squad for a その後の friendly against Spain.
Linked with City before
By the time of that maiden call-up, 2016 had already been a 著名な year for Laporte. In March he 支えるd a fracture in his 権利 脚 while playing for フラン’s Under-21s, which 支配するd him out for the 残り/休憩(する) of the season. He was then str ongly linked with City over the summer before 運動競技の 発表するd in June that he had 調印するd a new を取り引きする them running to 2020, 追加するing that the 解放(する) 条項 for 2016-17 and this season would be 65 million euros (現在/一般に about £57m).
“It’s all about arriving at perfection”
Laporte gave an interview to FourFourTwo when he was 20 in which he (機の)カム across very much as someone City boss Pep Guardiola might be 利益/興味d in. “My position’s most important 進化 has been in the sense of 存在 more than a defender,” Laporte said. “A big part of my game is to bring the ball out from the 支援する. Defenders do this more than ever before. It’s all about arriving at perfection. I spend as much time in training and matches working on starting attacks as I do stopping them.”
Superstition
Many footballers have superstitions, and Laporte 明らかにする/漏らすd his in another FourFourTwo piece from 2015 ? always trying to enter the pitch with his 権利 foot first. “I don’t know why I do it,” he said. “It ’s just something I’ve always done, I suppose.”
A former striker
As a child, Laporte loved watching Sylvain Wiltord (ツバメ Rickett/PA).
Laporte, who is six foot three インチs tall, also in that interview spoke about 存在 a centre-今後 when he was growing up who “won my team’s golden boot pretty much every season” and loved watching former Portugal striker Pauleta and ex-フラン and 兵器庫 今後 Sylvain Wiltord play for Bordeaux.