#2 He built his game playing on the streets
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Mahmoud Dahoud’s football origins lie in the streets of Germany where he first developed a passion for the game. In a German interview with the official Bundesliga website, he was quoted as saying (translated), “As a child, I did not actually do anything other than to kick (the ball) with the other kids on the street or in the yard. All the kids come together and we used to play for hours, without ever tiring. From the moment I walked, the ball was my thing. And that has not changed.”
It is pretty well-known how some of the greatest footballers, especially the South Americans, honed their skills playing on the streets before enthralling every part of the world. Dahoud’s time playing street-football definitely puts him in good stead in that respect especially as he gets ready to face the tougher challenges in the game.
