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"Get up. This is not football. And

Jack Grealish

(Birmingham, UK, 1995), his body bruised and his fingers crushed by the stomps, got up and went about his business. At that time he was playing for a Dorridge club, John Mitchels. Although there they were dedicated to Gaelic football, a historic Celtic game popular in Ireland in which rugby and football are mixed. Grealish practiced it between the ages of 10 and 14. By then Nike was already stalking him for his performance in the lower categories of Aston Villa. And his father,

Kevin

, a fan of

villains

, he no longer had any doubts about the path he should follow. “Although that helped him a lot because of the way they beat him. It is a brutal sport compared to football », the patriarch went on to affirm to explain his son's resistance to blows. Not only those who are associated with sport, but also vital ones. Even if he provoked them himself.

Let's put ourselves in the present.

Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish has restored hope to England's fans after decades of failure.

His first-round performance against the Czech Republic that led the

Three Lions

team to the round of 16

was already decisive, enabling

Sterling

to score the only goal.

The substitution to which

Gareth Southgate

was relegated

in the round of 16 duel against Germany disturbed.

But the elegant winger barely had 20 minutes to dismember the history of defeats against Germany.

He led the way to the opening goal, again by

Sterling

, and he himself was in charge of offering his second assist of the tournament so that

Harry Kane

It will finally be released in this European Championship.

Grealish is a right-hander who develops his football by the left profile of the attack.

He likes to face, hence he is the Premier League footballer who receives the most fouls.

Although there are those who say that if he receives more tow than anyone else, it is because his legs, almost naked, invite the slam.

The legend of Best and the stockings

Grealish, yes, play with the socks very low.

So much so that, to comply with the regulations, he wears shin guards as a child.

They are the only ones that serve so that the protection does not protrude above the fabric.

For years, the legend has circulated that it is his way of paying homage to

George Best

, whom he would have seen as a child in a documentary lowering his stockings.

This is how the Norwegian challenged the stevedores who wanted to break his legs.

The story also has its chicha before the life of Best's alcoholic rogue and the revelries that Grealish has run while rising to stardom. The explanation for all this, however, and according to at least the interested party himself, is somewhat less romantic. Her socks were simply shrunk by the washing machine once when she was 16 years old. He put them on anyway. And the season went so well that he decided to continue with the same aesthetic. Pure superstition. He also says his socks are so tight they give him cramps. This is not a fashion show. As long as he performs, let him wear what he wants », his father has always excused him.

The family obsession, with an Irish background, was for Jack to triumph at Aston Villa. It was the club where his great-great-grandfather played, who won the FA Cup in 1905. And also the club with which the winger has finally managed to boost his category, leaving behind those first 20 games in which each time he played his team He always lost, his years of consolidation in the Championship (second English category) and, above all, his night runs.

British tabloids found a vein in 2015 with that 20-year-old Grealish who had debuted at 18 at Aston Villa.

The most traveled episode has to do with a photograph in which he appears apparently unconscious on a Tenerife street.

Next to his head, a packet of tobacco.

Hours before, photographs had already circulated in which the footballer, along with some friends, was accompanied by bottles of vodka.

Laughing gas

The thing did not end there.

Another image in which Grealish seems to give a good account of the laughing gas also reached the media.

That is, nitrous oxide put inside a balloon.

In the U21 team, during the Southgate stage, they also took his tuition for not complying with working hours.

The football maturity reached in his club and its growing fame -

Pep Guardiola's

Manchester City claims it

and its price already exceeds 100 million euros - has not ended up correcting the excesses. Last December he slammed his Land Rover into three parked cars. "He could smell alcohol on his breath, his speech was confused and he would not stand up," said a witness before being sentenced by a Birmingham court to a nine-month withdrawal of his driving license and a fine of 90,000 euros.

Paul Gascoigne

, unleashed at Euro 1996, was left half because in the semifinals against Germany the now English coach, Gareth Southgate, missed a penalty at Wembley.

The coach now has in hand to make Grealish the great English hero.

Ethical poetry.

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