Marcus Rashford
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Renowned American motivational speaker Zig Ziglar is famous for saying - “There is no elevator to success... You have to take the stairs”. And that's how it is for most of us. The road to achieving anything respectable is a long, long, grind.
Someone forgot to tell Marcus Rashford that though. Thrown into the Manchester United team during a must win Europa League match, and that too due to an injury to the regular starter in the warm up, the young lad from Wythenshawe, Manchester, scored with his first shot of competitive senior-level first-team football.
This, and a long injury list, meant he kept his place for the next weekend's Premier League match. So he scored in that match too – again with the first shot of his Premier League career.
In an otherwise disappointing season for United, the local lad emerged as a beacon of hope, and as the matches went on, and the pressure grew – he kept calm, and kept scoring. Even today, with United besieged on all quarters by problems aplenty, Rashford is an oasis of calm that offers hope and excitement.
He even broke another record when he became the first teenager to score a Premier League goal under a side managed by Jose Mourinho when he scored against Hull this season.
Yes he's got lucky – he got a break that no one saw coming (not many at the Academy had marked him out as a potential star - he was always deemed adequate and not much more), but by Jove! has he made the best of it.
Displaying an almost eerie calm, on and off the ball, Rashford has used that leverage the maximum out of his obvious physical qualities – speed, size and strength. And when called upon has finished with expert precision, whether they be headers, tap-ins or long range curlers.
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He may have taken the elevator, but he shows no signs of climbing down anytime soon.
The Key Numbers for Rashford
Matches Played - 35Goals scored - 9Assists provided – 2
