Guardian Sport
UK · 2 hrs ago
‘Best player England has developed’: Olise’s rise from Hayes to the World Cup
One of the Bayern and France playmaker’s early coaches tells the story of how a move to Reading kickstarted a career
If Michael Olise wins the World Cup, there will be a corner of a Hayes housing estate that is for ever France. It is Olise’s corner, a scrap of parkland grass among the west London suburban homes where a seven-year-old practised his football with his brother, Richard. “Football in these conditions, it’s just freedom,” Olise told L’Équipe last month. “It’s not really learning in th
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