Hector Bellerin

 

Football was my one and only thing when I was a kid,” he explains later, in an accent that sits somewhere between Catalunya and Clapton and now changed into a relatively subdued pink hoodie and grey slacks combination. “My grandmother had made clothes my whole life, my mum followed her, and, at home, there were just materials and fabrics everywhere... But when I was very young, football was absolutely everything. My earliest memories are of jumping fences with my dad. We had a school next to our flat, and it used to be closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The fence wasn’t too tall so we’d both jump over and play. When I think about it, you know, it wasn’t really safe to let a five-year-old jump the fence, but it was all for the love of football. Clothes have always been part of my life, but football absolutely came first.”(Sandison D; Issue 15). 

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