What it takes to be a World Cup soccer player

Romelu Lukaku, fresh off the 2018 FIFA World Cup, breaks down what it takes to make it to the top tier of soccer. Lukaku attributes his success to the mental strength he developed at a young age. Growing up in a family limited financial means drove him to be strong for his mother and achieve his goal. By the time he was 16, Lukaku signed a professional football contract. Following is a transcript of the video.

Romelu Lukaku: I was just like a man on a mission since I was six. I think everybody's born with a talent. It's about you to discover what your talent is and then try to master it. And for me it was scoring. I just knew, okay, I'm a scorer. I can shoot with my left and my right and with my head when I was like eight or nine. That was, for me, it was like just finding a way how to master it, how to score in different type of ways. I mean, that's what got me here.

I never did like the running part because I'm not a good long distance runner. I'm more like a sprinter, but I would just go take a ball and I would go to the soccer pitch that was two miles away from my house. I would walk there with three or four balls in my hands. And then shoot. All day. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. Try to score as much as I can.

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