Manchester United – defender Leny Yoro was nicknamed Nani as a child – and not just because he had the same hairstyle as the former wing player of Old Trafford.
Yoro, the French center-back that United £ 52 million cost in the summer when he arrived from Lille, unveiled his ambition as a boy who grew up in the Paris suburb of Alfortville, had to score goals instead of preventing.
The 19-year-old won himself as a flying winger in the form of Kylian Mbappe when he learned his profession his friends called him Nani.
Yoro, who appears on the Podcast Rio Ferdinand, presented by Qatar Airways, said: “I played as a striker when I was really young. Like a wing player. Yes, I was fast.
“Maybe not as fast as Mbappe – but people called me Nani because I had the same hair – and I was fast.”
Nani, the Portuguese international who followed in the footsteps of Cristiano Ronaldo when he moved to United from Sporting Lisbon in a £ 20 million deal in 2007, won four Premier League titles and the Champions League in eight glorious years at Old Trafford.
Yoro has had no excuses to copy the characteristic Somersault -target of the winger since he was signed by Erik de Hag.
Injactors have made it a struggle for the teenager to bring his A-Game to the United States, because the team inherited by new boss Ruben Amorim continued to struggle.
His performance in the 3-1 victory over Southampton was a real character test – but Yoro responded by looking at images of the game so that he could learn from his mistakes.
Yoro said: “Yes, that game was a bit difficult. I lost a lot of one-V-ONEN and for confidence it is not the best.
“You can't change the past. This is the type of game that helps you grow up from experience. Because you can do good tackles, experience fines, but you need bad things to improve your games and gain experience. I think this game helped me a lot.
“I have viewed the one-v-one-es perhaps 10 times. Because I just wanted to know why I did wrong. I think this game helped me a lot to improve. “
Yoro added: “I felt busy, man. Like when I went somewhere, I thought everyone was talking about the price tag and expectations. But my safe place was the training field, on the field.
“I come for a big price for a big price, so yes, the pressure is here. People speak a lot, and today social media are really in our lives, you know.
“Every day you go to social media, you can see your name – for good news or sometimes for bad news. But yes, if I go to the training ground with the teammates, you know, I just forget everything. Just go on the field and train, take fun.
“I'm not looking for my name on Twitter or Instagram, so I don't even see my name on social media.
“I don't try to see it even if it's good. If of course I see something good, my self -confidence may increase a bit. But when I see something bad, it's just like that – I can't change anything, so it doesn't change much of my self -confidence. “
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