Kevin Danso speaks to i's Katherine Lucas about emulating Jude Bellingham and Jadon Sancho, praise from Rio Ferdinand, and how Ralf Rangnick has transformed Austria
Kevin Danso speaks to i's Katherine Lucas about emulating Jude Bellingham and Jadon Sancho, praise from Rio Ferdinand, and how Ralf Rangnick has transformed AustriaDays away from his first major international tournament, there was a possibility that Kevin Danso could have been pulling on an
“We are a really good team, a really well-coached team and everybody really understands the philosophy,” Danso says. “From the Nations League, when the coach came in, we’ve made a huge progression and you see it by the way we play. We’ve really learned how to play against the bigger teams and get a result in our favour.
It first struck him at 16, on a night when despite recently having become a professional footballer, his friends were the ones wearing tuxedos and pulling up to Wilton Hall, on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, in limousines.“That was the hardest point for me because I was like, ‘I could have been at prom!’. But it was all worth it in the end because I’m living my dream. You don’t understand! Everybody was there. That’s the first time it really hit me. Ah man.
“I thought, ‘I’m not going to move to Germany, leave all my friends behind and my family just to not go and make it’. So I was like, ‘you have to make it’, and that’s the mindset I went in with. Do everything with 100 per cent attitude and it will pay off.”, a spell interrupted by Covid, tainted by the club being dragged into a relegation battle in the first half of the 2019-20 season, and in which he was also required to play out of position at full-back.
“It was the best thing that happened to me and luckily it was early in my career. The earlier you realise, the better it is. It’s helped me so much and that’s why you see the Kevin Danso you see today, who’s always got his foot on the gas.”
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