{"id":70343,"date":"2018-12-16T23:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70343"},"modified":"2018-12-16T23:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T22:29:02","slug":"epl-marcus-rashford-speaks-on-joining-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=70343","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Marcus Rashford speaks on joining Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester United striker, Marcus Rashford, has insisted that the Red Devils are the only club he ever wanted to join as a child and that Liverpool was \u201cnever an option\u201d.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sky Sports ahead of United\u2019s trip to Anfield on Sunday, Rashford spoke extensively about how he was spotted by the Old Trafford outfit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was playing for my old Sunday League team, Fletcher Moss, we won a tournament and there were loads of different scouts there.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a lot of us, United was the one. Everyone grew up a United fan and United and Fletcher Moss always had a good relationship, players in the past had made that switch, so United was natural.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was about five, six years old, we started at The Cliff development centre. When you make the step over to this building, you\u2019re nine, 10 years old and it\u2019s different from what you\u2019re used to \u2013 just look at the size of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t go to 11-a-side until you\u2019re 12 years old. Before then you\u2019re playing on tight pitches, which is good because it develops your skills,\u201d he says, after laughing at the memory of one of his first games here (a 15-6 win over Bradford).<\/p>\n

\u201cSo from that corner to that corner, you\u2019re learning different ways to play the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really good; you can see the U16s and the U18s train \u2013 you see the pathway,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester United striker, Marcus Rashford, has insisted that the Red Devils are the only club he ever wanted to join as a child and that Liverpool was \u201cnever an option\u201d. In an interview with Sky Sports ahead of United\u2019s trip to Anfield on Sunday, Rashford spoke extensively about how he was spotted by the Old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[3367,8076],"class_list":["post-70343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liverpool","tag-rashford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}