Jude Bellingham is the man of the hour in world football right now, and after leading England to the European Championship Final two years ago in a tournament that included a literal last second bicycle kick to save the Three Lions in the knockouts, he has provided arguably more heroics this year with back to back braces in the World Cup knockouts.
England would have surely lost without the Real Madrid superstar midifelder's contributions as a goal scorer, defender, and all around midfielder. Bellingham is all over the pitch playing, as his jersey number would suggest, as a No. 10 or moving a bit deeper, and even when he does start as an attacking midfielder in Thomas Tuchel's lineup, he still defends all the way into his own six yard box to prevent goals.
Everyone is falling in love with Jude around the world, and people who would have never cheered for the Englihsh national team are now having fun watching them. There is more team spirit and fight, and then there is Jude.
Jude Bellingham is a rare talent
The big names in English footballing punditry have finally caught on, and Gary Neville brought up a great point on what separates Jude from the other midfielders in the world and what makes him such a special player for England (and Real Madrid).
Neville said on The Overlap podcast, “What Jude Bellingham is demonstrating in this tournament is that he can do it in both parts of the pitch. He’s gone back and played deeper, and I like him deeper. I don’t like this idea that top players at an elite level don’t have to contribute to the defensive part.”
The thing about Jude Bellingham is that he has always been like this. Even before he arrived at Real Madrid, where he is still their hardest working midfielder and best defensive player in the middle of the park, he was doing all that for Borussia Dortmund with such gusto and effort that it is shocking more people were not praising him then - though that may be because most people do not pay much attention to the Bundesliga, let alone Dortmund.
There are a lot of elite players, not just in the midfield, who do not try to contribute to help the team as much as Bellingham does, and the fact that he can score so many goals yet have icons of the game like Gary Neville requesting him to play even deeper in midfield speaks volumes to the impact he has on games as a midfielder when defending or carrying the ball. Jude is a rare talent.
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