Arsenal’s new Egyptian defensive midfielder is an intelligent reader of the game who in his final months at Basel has shown a growing eye for goalThe idea was that Mohamed Elneny should become at one with the ball. It came from his father,who was a youth team coach at Baladeyet Al-Mahalla in Egypt, and it was achieve into practice when Elneny was very young.“I remember that my father demanded that I went to bed with the ball, or ” Elneny says. He said: ‘You enjoy to associate with the ball.’ He started coaching me when I was three years aged. His biggest wish was that I became a professional footballer.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com