Bukayo Saka

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Games against Belgium are the type of games you want to play in as a player - the big games, the games that mean the most.
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Before every game, I ask God to help me play well, help my team and try to score a goal or assist a goal and he answers my prayers, so this is why I point to the sky to thank him.
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We're all humans on the earth. However we can help, we should.
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I feel like I can learn a bit from everyone.
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When you play for your country, it means the world. You're playing for a whole nation. You're representing a whole nation. They're all behind you, supporting you. It just means everything.
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I feel like my dream was always to be a winger, to affect games, score goals and get assists.
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I experienced discrimination online. I think every player does.
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What Auba brought was so many goals for the team and carried us in certain moments.
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I trained at Hale End and then signed when I was nine years old.
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I don't feel pressure from external voices.
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Conor Coady, for example, is a real leader - he speaks to us a lot, encourages us a lot and makes sure training standards are high and things like that are important for the team.
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I think the Champions League creates so many special nights and it's a dream for me still to experience one of them and hopefully many more of them.
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I had invitations from Spurs, Chelsea, Fulham and Watford but the only choice was Arsenal. I enjoyed the way that they played so the choice was easy for me.
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You dream of that as a kid, scoring for your country.
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There are a lot of players, staff and ex-players trying to use their platform to be powerful.
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Especially with my friends, some of my friends in other countries, or have moved away from me, you can play games and catch up at the same time.
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I remember being that kid looking up to people but I never sent anyone my pocket money!
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I was standing on the pitch at Old Trafford before the game. It was just my second-ever start in the Premier League - and it finally hit me: I'm in the Arsenal first team.
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I feel that every opportunity that comes up in every camp and every international break I have to make sure I'm fit and available to be picked. Then, when I am picked, I have to give my all and take every opportunity I am given.
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When I'm in the car with my girl, we listen to Ed Sheeran!
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Ian Wright knows everyone, you know! He's such a good guy, man. I swear. He has a good heart. You don't find people like that a lot.
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When we were growing up we were taught by our parents to have faith in God.
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I don't really have a game face and keep it, you know? I have a game face when it's time to think, to analyse, or when it's actually time to play. Apart from that, I try not to have one. I'd rather be free.
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My iPad I use every day.
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I always watch clips of the opposition and try to understand the way they play before the game.
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I use music for everything, I use it in the shower, I use it on the way to games, I use it before games. I can use music anywhere, especially Afro beats, it just makes you feel good, makes you happy, smile, dance.
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When you get the chance to play every week, there is nothing better.
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Making my England debut was a special moment and now New Balance is showing a lot of faith in me, I am grateful for the opportunity, it's been a great time for me.
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New Balance is a huge name in sport, with strong values and that was very important to me and my family. Right from the first meeting, I was really impressed. It was clear that working with the team was more than a sponsorship, it is a real partnership, one where we are all very much aligned in what we want to achieve.
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I think Arsenal was always the one I wanted to go to.
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It seemed like they had a lot of faith in their youth and there was a clear pathway when you could see the players coming up from Hale End to London Colney and my dad also really believed in the project and he loved Arsene Wenger. I think Arsenal was the club in the hearts of my family, so we chose them.
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That's always on my mind when I get the ball in the final third - 'how am I going to create a chance?' or 'how am I going to get a shot?'
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My whole family has been in England like forever.
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I've always dreamed of this moment from when I was a kid to score a goal for Arsenal Football Club.
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I always wanted to learn to get better, I always watched a lot of football to see how I could improve.
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I had problems with my heels and my knees, but that happens when you grow up.
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When I was really young I had a lot of growing pains, and it was really frustrating.
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I got impatient at times.
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You go through the youth teams, year by year, and you see all these great players around you - some of them could be the best in the year - and slowly they are all let go, to other clubs or even stopping completely.
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I just enjoyed playing, but I don't think I ever really thought I was going to make it to the first team until I actually signed my first professional contract when I turned 17.
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My dad has always been a big football fan, he supported Newcastle because he loved Alan Shearer.
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I hadn't been to many stadiums at all, so it was a big moment for me, as an eight-year-old, to go to a game.
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From the age of three or four I would be playing football at home in the garden with my dad, and my older brother.
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My brother played as a defender for Watford until he was about 14.
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Weekends in our house were always about football. My dad would usually take me to Arsenal - I joined when I was about seven - and my mum would take my brother to Watford.
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I learned a lot about how wingers in the Premier League play against defenders.
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In the future if I do get to go back on to the wing I feel like I know how full backs play and playing as a full back I know what wingers do, what I like them to do and what I don't like them to do. It's a good learning experience for me.
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Harry Kane put his arm around me, he spoke to me and asked me how I was. For him to do that, it helped me settle in much quicker and made me feel comfortable to be myself around everyone.
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