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super talent stretching for the stars sometimes precociously early i thought for i thought i had no football boots just 3 weeks the day my dad got myself. a story of fathers and so. a lot of money but my father's face. rosia dortmund's young headline makers of today and tomorrow. talk about an early statement of intent the opening match day of the new season proceeded dortmund against their namesakes from mention blood 2 of the bundesliga representatives in the champions league knockout stage and for the hosts a case of you instantly and spectacularly to the fore. to get a match you're right about the sorts of. things she. just put the slip.

thank you my still. rewarded at the finish with a 3 nil win. jags i'm sure but he's got. some spots you know. you have to be careful with superlatives but surely there are a few clubs anywhere in the world that can match dortmund's dazzling collection of top drawer town and there will be on the promising prospect stage at 20 jaden san show and ellen holland are superstars already gio raina is fast following in their footsteps he is just 18 jude bellingham is 17 brazilian playmaker raine yeah he is 18 and then there is him you know so far more called 16 years old a veritable football wunderkind. this you will bandar in their natural element out on the pitch that much is absolutely clear.

overall a really good night to score and you know obviously get the win but now you have to kick on and you know perform a little better going forward but it was great. i only need to say a couple of what's in that. he's been doing. and i don't need to say more. giovanni raina the american dream is a cliché he's one listed in this league a take on it but let's briefly turn the clock back to the summer of 29 teams dortmund on tour in the usa fresh in their ranks a 16 year old talent signed from the academy of new york city f.c. and already getting his 1st taste of action with the pros. it's perfect he could not live anywhere proceed i know kids say they saw it time to make it debuts where it's really way for him as a little kid. when dreams come true it's all the better if your nearest and dearest

are there as well i mean my parents are here i'm looking for them but 'd i can't find them but yeah i know i just thank them my little brother my little sister just everything i love. and this when the. day soon turned mom danielle herself a former us international and father cloudy oh. so amazing it's a dream for us our family. gladio reign in the us he's a football legend in his own right captain america who also played in the bundesliga for labor coups and sport a top class midfielder in his day now in the role of proud parent. we were both so nervous. i don't remember the last time i was this nervous because you know all of a sudden he's playing in front of 304060000 people just like this it was it was

amazing so i think i was more nervous. 2020 in austin texas this is where cloud he'll reign is based now sporting director of austin f.c. the club are gearing up to play in the m.l.s. in 2021 meanwhile there is time enough to cast a still slightly incredulous back on geo's own u.s. debut for dortmund so proud i really don't know what to say anymore to be honest about when people ask me. you know what he's doing is something that at his age is is amazing. you know i don't know if there's a better club in the world that develops young players and young talents into into men in professional players like dortmund and so to see what they've done. in the last 1215 months with him is is really impressive always keen on sports geos general. easy going by nature with the hard exception he hates to lose more than he

loves to win and so i think this is what always was driving him. any particular advice for his son. against always remember it's a game and he has to enjoy it in and that's what i love watching more than anything a lot of clubs wanted to sign him but a trip to dortmund sealed the deal for everybody. he felt that's where i want to go and to be honest my wife and i we were hoping that he picked dortmund because we had the same feeling that he had when we went to visit we like the club. and. the environments also in italy and she has parents obviously cloudy and knows what needs to be done and. so does auto otto dortmund's dedicated coach for top talent has been working with raina since the off here the former midfielder won the title himself with the black and yellow and went on to play under your gun club at

minds. now all that experience is channelled into helping the latest rising stars. as he said miliband is with us again now we don't even have to explain things he already sees what he could have done better for me coaching these top talents that's the best work when the player recognises his strengths and weaknesses and offers his own solutions. dortmund against fribourg at the start of october solutions in action out on the pitch in abundance gio rayner with 3 assists on the day that's a blunder sleeker 1st for any 17 year old player. and further confirmation of the quality he's been displaying in germany's top flight to out the course of 2020. 5 and such the 5. yes i like to say. that since the book is so i guess what you

have on me right now always stops. when i sling it was. rain has already laid the foundations for a particularly pope looking partnership with him. and then hala. he grew up in rather different surroundings here in luna. a small town of some 12000 souls in the southwest of norway. when we now. try to get. better. where it all began for him today he and his 2 step sisters playing here kitted out in the obligatory black and yellow and under the expert in go all the

airlines father himself a former top level professional. i think you may be. goofy for me you know. obviously. willing to believe you know. teammates but they do well you know that's it it's it's it's it's enough it's i was a team. i know you're going to stick the right. thing learn that early at his 1st club and from his father who played in england for nottingham forest leeds and manchester city as well as 34 times for norway inspiration club said. yeah of course my father has been a role model for me you know i wanted to try to get better than him over a goal then. and i had a lot of the old money but my father played me before. at 16 it was time to leave for his 1st professional club further north in mosul. one little song. young

kid and kid told kid was still growing. skin and bone. i thought was it's going to be a project yeah. i project barely got stuck into it with due diligence and he evidently ability systems of fitness coach bought a steam slipped that tall skinny kid was transforming into a model athlete. like a horse one day he just developed his body and improved. a lot and he in couple of years. willpower and sheer power ending hauling it along bursting box to box spring pace combined with an insatiable appetite for goals makes him virtually unstoppable one sees in full flow.

he's one of the times to excited to go on strike what. a great job it will. be great people around you. you know not just stays healthy injury free you know. looks like he's got a good future. so how do they do it a dog out of a land these terrific young talents time and again the man in charge of that department is sporting director michel saul he's been at this club pro 42 years now as a player he helped them to german european and world titles you know over 2 decades in his current capacity so i counted perhaps unparalleled track record for signing top prospects outcompetes of some states a lot of factors coming together michel school to pave the way next. sectional job

of putting together a team that always have an effect picking out these kind of timon's cuts in terms of the numbers it's frighteningly good the most muslims on. that work naturally extends to the youth academy whose coaches are tasked with further developing the steady stream of potential stars in waiting scouted by the club just one shining example from times past nori schoene 17 years and 82 days young when he scored his 1st born just a good goal another is the current you think out of me director laws rick and a local hero in his own playing days as they could be dead 17. years on time but everyone plays their parts firstly in training up these guys well but then also giving them a chance at the top level and giving them that platform with coaches like you seem faster now saying ok the 7 seas so i'm throwing them in the. new faces betting into a reliably consistent backdrop for the past 10 years god regards as been dortmund's

destination of choice for their summer training camp the scenics whisper town ticks all the right boxes for a pre-season program that's both rigorous and relaxed as again this august it was the 1st time. i mean you've got. another 17 year old prodigy snapped up in the face of fierce competition. dizziness soon on the pitch. it can't be easy at such a tender age pitched into a different environmental subjected to the scrutiny of all your new colleagues produced the other him the move from birmingham city also meant leaving the club he had played for since early childhood. the hardest thing about leaving but i mean the most that i'd been there for so long then. there are a massive part of me being a fan of the club and then. working all the way through the academy to apply for

the 1st day. of the transition from england to germany was actually pretty seamless he said most of rights in his game fuses a lot of different elements we have here already little bits he brings it all out on the pitch not just in a tank but defensively as well he gives a certain fast sense and assets that make for a remix d. . that's wasn't. settling in nicely that much was clear straight away. a huge you have to get somebody to. come. along. and an instant understanding with one player in particular to see jayden is an amazing player amazing young english player and you know we have a decent connection it's easy for him a because he speaks the same language. obviously as well being someone similar to

my very creative and then holland someone who is you know you really just want to get to see how good he is in close. in. pre-season preparations are one thing but how would his teenage newcomer fare when the serious action got underway. all fit for miles out to playing abilities debut but he has got a goal. and the answer wasn't long in coming on from the start at deuce borg in the 1st round of the german cup jude bellingen promptly became dortmund's youngest ever score in a competitive match. my cancer was somebody seen all you do no harm with a sense of normality returning 10000 people inside the stadium it's annoying to see the fitness league back with it but. in the legality i'm also featured from the off on the opening 3 matt.