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    JUDE THE ADORED

    Nov 17, 2021 6 minutes
    Words Ed McCambridge

    02 JUDE BELLINGHAM

    Age 18 Club Borussia Dortmund

    Nationality English

    Position Central midfielder

    Time seems to move at a different pace for Jude Bellingham. When FourFourTwo caught up with the prodigy in January, the teenager said his England career was “not something to rush”, having only recently made his international debut. He wasn’t even old enough to buy a pint.

    Fast-forward six months and the classy wunderkind was playing in the quarter-finals of Euro 2020 – his third appearance of the tournament where the Three Lions would finish as runners-up. Turns out snubbing Manchester United hadn’t done much harm.

    “Had Jude opted to join a big Premier League team instead of Borussia Dortmund, I don’t believe it would have been possible to play for England at the Euros,” explains Sven Westerschulze, chief Dortmund reporter at Bild. “He might not have been given the playing time he needed.”

    That had been the biggest factor behind Bellingham’s decision to swap Birmingham for

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