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Miracle Of Moses: How He Has Gone From Loan Outcast To A Key Chelsea Player by Nobody: 7:12am On Nov 01, 2016 |
At 25-years-old, many players would have
decided it was probably time to move on, but
Conte arrived and Moses got his head down once
again and the transformation has been
spectacular. Even the Italian has been taken
aback. “I think Moses is a great surprise in this aspect
because we know him as a winger, but I think
he’s playing in a fantastic way,” Conte said after
he shone once again in their victory against
Southampton, overshadowed only by the
resurgence of Eden Hazard and Diego Costa, who
both scored.
“I think that this role is very important in this
system,” Conte added. “You must have good
stamina and quality to play as a wing-back. I ask
my wing-backs to do offensive and defensive
duties.”
Moses’ resilience, however, should shock no-
one. He coped with trauma at 12 years old that no
child should have to endure.
His parents — father Austin, a Christian pastor,
and mother Josephine, who worked with him —
were murdered in their home back in Nigeria
when religious tensions between Muslims and
Christians erupted into violence in 2002. Moses,
who was also at risk, escaped to England and was
taken in by a foster family in south London.
It was where he was spotted by Crystal Palace
playing football in Norbury Park. They got him a
place at the prestigious Whitgift school where he
proved a prolific striker. There was no tracking
back to pick up the opposition winger then.
He captained their Under-14s to the FA Youth Cup
in 2005 and hit all five in the final past a Grimsby
side all in red. The Grimsby Evening Telegraph
wrote a story on the match with the headline:
‘Holy Moses – wonder player parts red sea.’
Moses made his Championship debut for Palace
at 16, but they sold him to Wigan two-and-a-half
years later after falling into administration.
Chelsea bought him a few years after that when
they wanted the best young attacking midfielders.
Hazard, the same age, and Oscar, a year
younger, signed with him that summer.
Moses has always scored wherever he has been
but not as prolifically as in his youth. Yet Conte
has spotted attributes in him that he desires for
those crucial wing-back positions in his
unorthodox 3-4-3 formation.
Moses is rapid, has seemingly endless reserves
of stamina and is actually not bad at defending
despite his relative inexperience. His ability to
turn defending into a blistering attack by dribbling
with the ball was evident several times against
Southampton.
“I have not played there before,” Moses said on
Sunday night. “I have just got to listen to what the
manager asks me to do in that position, and the
way he wants me to do it.
“Every game we play I just want to keep on
improving. The more games you play, the more
experience you get in that position. I’m really
relishing it at the moment and enjoying it.
“We want to make sure we don’t get caught
sleeping in a game. Every day in training the
manager is on top of us to make sure we are
solid at the back. It’s looking good for us at the
moment, but we have to keep our feet firmly on
the floor.” One feels Moses has no difficulty in
remaining humble, wherever he is playing or
whatever the circumstances.
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Re: Miracle Of Moses: How He Has Gone From Loan Outcast To A Key Chelsea Player by acenazt: 7:53am On Nov 01, 2016 |
Seriously Chelsea are becoming something else since that new formation came. Imagine in the Whole top 5 leagues of Europe I.e (Epl,la liga,Bundesliga,Seria A and France league one) on Chelsea didn't concede a goal in the month of October. Moses,Kante,Alonso,Hazard,Costa,David Luis, and courtois all doing wonderfully well |
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