In 2014, the Etihad home team won their second Premier League title. Yet less than 10 years later, Man City has 7 Premier League titles. And Phil Foden has 5 championships, even though he is only 23 years old!

Witnessing a brilliant performance and a double to help Man City come back to beat Man United 3-1 in Round 27 of the Premier League, Pep Guardiola praised Phil Foden as the best player in the country’s highest-class tournament of the era. current point. Roy Keane praised Phil Foden as a great player and worthy of starting for England in the upcoming EURO 2024. And Troy Deeney compared Foden to superstar Ronaldinho!

The Sniper (Phil Foden’s new nickname) has been a Man City fan since childhood, trained at the club’s academy and has boundless love for The Citizens. Witnessing Phil Foden’s debut for the Man City first team at the age of 17, Pep Guardiola called him a gift.

Philip Walter Foden was born on May 28, 2000 in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester includes the cities of Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan and many people in the Greater Manchester area are Blue Man fans. Since he was young, Phil Foden has also been a fan of The Citizens. It is worth mentioning that his father, Phil Foden Snr, is a Red Man fan!

Young Phil Foden joined the blue half of Manchester when he was just 4 years old and was awarded a scholarship to the Manchester City Academy in July 2016 when he was just 6 years old. On November 21, 2017, at the age of 17, he made his debut for Man City in the UEFA Champions League.

Left-footed, Phil Foden is often deployed as right midfielder by coach Pep Guardiola. Then he will make turns inside (Cut Inside), curling his left foot to score like the midfielder scored a beautiful 1-1 equalizer for Man City in the Manchester Derby in the last round. Foden can also play in the middle or on the left wing. Also in the 3-1 win over Man United, feeling that Doku was not playing effectively, Pep Guardiola withdrew the Belgian midfielder and pushed Foden to the left wing. Immediately, the Sniper demonstrated his comprehensiveness and versatility by scoring a goal to increase the score to 2-1 for the home team at Etihad Stadium from this side.

Not having a tall body (Phil Foden is only 1m71 tall), the 23-year-old man is a natural football talent. Phil Foden has special abilities. Sometimes he sticks inside and plays like a number 10, sometimes he sticks to the sideline and breaks through like a wing striker. No matter what position he plays, the English midfielder can create breakthroughs. Modern football lacks spontaneous street football-inspired plays like Phil Foden’s. If he continues his current rapid growth, Phil Foden will most likely become the best English player of all time!

This season, Phil Foden has scored a total of 18 goals and contributed 10 assists for City in all competitions and these are the best stats of his career.

Phil Foden’s talent does not come naturally!

It all started in October 2012, when Sheikh Mansour, owner of Man City, invited Txiki Begiristain (former Barcelona sports director) to be Sports Director and before that, Ferran Soriano (former Vice President in charge of Barcelona Finance) to become Managing Director of Man City. These are all close friends and were decisive in City inviting Pep Guardiola to become head coach in 2016. Manchester City also spent 200 million pounds to build a training complex, opened in 2016. 2014. Without the majestic Manchester City Academy and Pep Guardiola for training and guidance, how could we have the Phil Foden of today?

Building a house from the foundation, Manchester City’s way of doing football has reaped sweet results. Phil Foden is the best product of the Manchester City Academy. There are still Rico Lewis or the future Jacob Wright (both joined the academy at the age of 8).

Phil Foden soon became famous, but he had different interests than his playful teammates. He doesn’t like participating in noisy parties or lively bars. Instead, the Man City midfielder chooses to have fun with his family, fishing or playing games. The game that Foden plays the most is FIFA. Phil Foden soon had a son at the age of 18 with his childhood girlfriend Rebecca Cooke and now he has two children. The only stain in this player’s rather moderate personal life is the fact that he and Mason Greenwood called girls to their room while focusing on the England team in 2020.

From a ball boy at Etihad Stadium, Phil Foden has risen to world class. If he and Man City set a record for the fourth consecutive year of winning the Premier League title and make a great contribution to helping the Three Lions win EURO 2024, the Golden Ball title is waiting for Phil Foden. Why not?

Come on, Golden Boy of English football!