When Musiala moved to Chelsea FC’s academy, the same season their men’s team did, uh...something to Bayern Munich, he remembered how he shared a pitch with the first team during training.
“When we got to Chelsea, it was incredible just to be around all the legends — just to be within 100 meters of them, just to see them across the car park”, Musiala reminisced (via Players’ Tribune). “This was like 2012, so we were seeing Lampard, Drogba, Čech, Terry…. And they’re real. That’s actually Didier Drogba. Like, from FIFA. They were on a completely different side of the facility from us kids, but one day they came to train over on the youth pitch for some reason.
Being the fanboy he was, he made a beeline for the players and went to the German on the team: André Schürrle. One by one, he began collecting selfies with the rest of the team. With John Terry, Musiala’s dad lent a hand for that picture. His parents would happily do some of the easy stuff like that, but that wasn’t always the case.
To be continued.