Better than Zidane, Manchester City’s Rodri revealed his football great references

Manchester City’s midfielder Rodri is currently one of the best players in the Premier League and a pivotal member of Pep Guardiola’s squad, which converted him into one of the best midfielders in the world following the steps of his childhood’s idols, whom he revealed in the last few hours and surprised the fans with the names he spoke about.

In this sense, the Spanish midfielder, revealed to have followed the career of the French superstar Zinedine Zidane since he was a child, but he very soon gave up on having him as an idol, and preferred to follow other groups of players, due to their football preferences in his career.

Rodri, who very soon in his career would have realized that he would be a defensive midfielder instead of an attacker, would have preferred to follow players acting in his same position, which would have caused him to start to track the evolutions of several important playmakers in the Premier League.

Rodri is a huge admirer of a Liverpool legend

In this way, a Liverpool former superstar would have been his great model to improve his play, as he confessed to be a great admirer of Xabi Alonso, who won the Champions League with the Reds in Istanbul in 2005 and would have become the best player for Rodri’s taste during his childhood.