“Chelsea means everything to me. I’m still watching the games, keeping in contact with the players and staff.”
Trevoh Chalobah never really liked football and came to it late, sometimes crying in the car after training because he felt he was not good enough.
After moving to England and living in one room with his parents and siblings, he went on to play more than 100 times for Chelsea and was in England’s World Cup squad.
He talks to Andy Mitten about his Chelsea exit, working under Cesc Fabregas at Como and taking a dream board with him to matches.
by TheAthletic
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Nothing but love for you Trev 💙
But up Trev! We love you too mate, hope you smashing it in Italy
Maybe I’m being too ignorant (english isn’t my first language), but, what does it mean “travelling with a dream board/taking a dream board to matches”?
> At Chelsea (academy) you won every week, at Ipswich we did not. It was a test but it was needed. Men’s football. An important skipper, senior boys shouting, angry because of the game you played. You don’t see that in academy football.
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> At Ipswich we needed points but we didn’t get enough. Relegation… seeing those faces in the dressing room.
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> It was the same at Huddersfield but there we managed to stay up. I’d seen two sides of football. Then I went to France with Lorient, to play teams like Paris Saint-Germain and push myself further in a different type of football. I learned French, but I’ve forgotten a lot of it. I’d cycle to training, lived by the beach. Amazing. It was also Covid-19 time, with nothing else to do but concentrate on football. I really kicked on.
Had no idea he got relegated with Ipswich. This guy went through the whole gambit before becoming a Chelsea starter.