PHIL FODEN on the very personal reason why he wears No 47

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Man City's 支持する／優勝者s League 敗北・負かす to Real Madrid has only 強化するd Foden's 解決する to break new ground in the 首相 League?

Published: 12:00 BST, 19 April 2024 | Updated: 09:57 BST, 20 April 2024

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Some footballers like to turn their 長，率いるs away from history, the challenges it 現在のs and the 圧力 it brings. Phil Foden doesn’t think that way. He wants to walk に向かって it.

For Foden and Manchester City, a 発射 at a 支持する／優勝者s League defence and a 連続する treble have gone, ground into the dirt by Real Madrid’s 拒絶 to buckle during an epic Etihad night on Wednesday.

But at City when one door の近くにs, there is always another one to walk through. And for Foden and his team-mates a 思い出の品 of what remains possible over the next five weeks is 令状 large on the 塀で囲む every time they lace up their boots.

‘We understand it here,’ Foden says.

‘We know if we 勝利，勝つ the 首相 League this time we will have done something new. It’s something we have our 注目する，もくろむs on.

Phil Foden is 目的（とする）ing to build on Manchester City's miraculous Treble last year with a whole new challenge in the 首相 League

The 学院卒業生（する） was first interviewed by Mail Sport five years ago - and his meteoric rise since is （疑いを）晴らす to see?

The defending 支持する／優勝者s were knocked out of the 支持する／優勝者s League by Real Madrid, but 焦点（を合わせる） now switches closer to home

‘Every time we put our boots on at the training ground that 説 is there on the 塀で囲む.

‘It says: “Nobody has won four 首相 Leagues in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動…yet”.

‘We want to put ourselves in history.

READ MORE:?City's dream of a 二塁打 Treble is no more… which is bad news for 兵器庫 and Liverpool, 令状s OLIVER HOLT?

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‘Every day I sit and look at that スローガン and I think: “Why not?”.’

The last time Foden sat 負かす／撃墜する with Mail Sport was almost five years ago. Foden was 18 and the football world was talking about why City 経営者／支配人 Pep Guardiola didn’t play him more or at least send him out on 貸付金. Foden himself, just eighteen months after his first team debut, was いっそう少なく preoccupied with all that. Beset by ペテン師 syndrome ? a former City ball boy in a changing room 十分な of world 星／主役にするs ? he told me he had to stop himself asking Kevin de Bruyne for autographs every time he turned up for work.

Foden was a kid 支援する then. Probably the most talented kid in England but a kid just the same. That day he agreed to jump into a ball 炭坑，オーケストラ席 for our photographer. This week he laughed at that memory. It seems faintly ridiculous now and that’s because it is. Because now Foden, a father of two, is arguably the most important player in Guardiola’s team, the scorer of big goals and the owner of important moments. Manchester 部隊d. Real at the Bernabeu. It doesn’t 事柄 who the 対立 is.

Boyhood Manchester City fan Foden now plays と一緒に club icons such as Kev in De Bruyne

The player, who has had arguably his best season of his career, was most recently Player of the Match at the Bernabeu

Foden gets nervous before some big games. ‘バタフライs in my stomach when I get to the stadium and I know it’s on,’ he says. But they disappear once the game starts. ‘That first touch of the ball and I know I am in my home,’ he nods.

Foden is still a young man. He is not 24 until next month. But as a sportsman he is all grown up. He is favourite to 勝利，勝つ this season’s Player of the Year honours and Gareth Southgate will rely on him when England get to Germany for the European 選手権. Foden, Bellingham, Saka, Kane. No wonder the 残り／休憩（する） of Europe is nervous.

So we see him 異なって now. The questions have been answered. They are 存在 answered. Guardiola was 権利 all along. Who would have thought it?

‘It’s been hard いつかs, you know, 存在 the City fan who was a ball boy and then making it through the levels to the first team,’ Foden explains.

‘I don’t think it will ever really change you know? A little bit of that feeling is always gonna be there. But I have balance now. Maybe it’s finally gone this year, I don’t know.

At 24, Foden is a family man with two young children (pictured after winning last season's 首相 League トロフィー)

Foden has 認める that he still gets nervous before the biggest matches - which might come as a surprise

After the season ends, the 的 will be European glory with England, と一緒に a cast of young talents 含むing Bukayo Saka and Jude Bellingham

‘The challenge for me was always a mountain to climb to even reach the first team. In my 長，率いる I just 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make one 外見 for this club and be able to say that I had done it.

‘But once I did that I thought: “No I can 現実に play here. I can 扱う the 基準”.

‘Now I am at that 行う／開催する／段階 where I feel like I am a 重要な player in the team. I feel very comfortable with that.’

The house where Foden grew up stands on a street corner a beefy fre e-kick away from Stockport 郡’s home at Edgeley Park.

It is to this house that Foden returned 持つ／拘留するing a 商売／仕事 card at the age of just six. It had been given to him at his school by a football scout called Terry John who had visited looking for talent. He had watched Foden dribble a ball 一連の会議、交渉／完成する some 反対／詐欺s and reckoned the kid had something.

As we talk and then do some filming for Mail Sport’s social マスコミ channels at City’s training ground this week, John stands 静かに in the corner. He is Foden’s 商売／仕事経営者／支配人 now. Foden has always kept his circle tight and says he always will.

‘I have known Terry all my life,’ Foden says.

‘It’s important to keep people there who have been on your 旅行. Luckily he （機の）カム in that day to school. Had he not, I don’t know where I would be 権利 now.

‘It’s hard, you know. There are a lot of people who suddenly want to be part of your life who didn’t know you before you become famous.

Foden has worked hard to keep his inner circle の近くに as he navigat es the choppy waters of footballing stardom

The Treble-勝利者 was born into his support of his 現在の club, before joining their 学院

As a child, Foden always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to have a ball at his feet - only then would he 'be happy'

‘I have always tried to keep 負かす／撃墜する to earth and the people I have around me 港／避難所’t changed. I have a small group and that’s the way I like it.’

Foden’s 旅行 through the City age groups was 早い. It began seven miles from home at the club’s old Platt 小道／航路施設, の近くに to Manchester’s famous curry mile in Rusholme. It’s owned by the university now.

‘It was an education,’ smiles Foden.