Treat bundestag a stars and their contrasts in journeys to the top. As youngsters we played on the street. Like the new show you dont remember the typical very rascal. I was born in a poor neighborhood back to the rates of the labor couzens journeys are inglese than this i live not b. K. To of like they come. By and still must know that to ensure they get up school lunch trying to get back in the evening and crash out as quick of a tree top on the snake it stars their own personal stories. You should never forget where youre from. New funny book lets find a. Tell us what are a very common name in germany but hes a very uncommon breed of footballer. One of the most unique in the history of the blunder state. However much my flight down. For ive just got a good feel for where to go when its all in the timing of timing. As space interpreter as he once poses and self a player with an uncanny knack for ghosting through a rival defense and doing something unexpected. For thanks to all those i think my brain cannot process a situation pretty quickly the thoughts on the fossil. To last minute starter days as a skinny youngster and pale a Country Village site of munich and reached the pinnacle of wales football who saw that coming as it turns out twice if you. Notice the signs were that while he was way better than anyone else when he wanted to school he schooled all the last. Night i have as hes not had to maintain a taco runs a garden pail and he was thomas maris first coach. Almost was thomas was the leader of a very good team the nine thousand nine hundred nine vintage they were a great team with together but he was the really crafty one even then that he was about explosives and. Laying the foundations early that craftiness remains a hall mark of his game. You know until mrs Primary School teacher was got hold of in the school it was conveniently within kicking distance of a football pitch. He was a heavy active schoolboy in the pay to all nations. Everything they evolved around football and he played it at every opportunity. You asked children what they want to be when they grow up as far as i can remember all you ever heard from thomas was. Thats what he always wanted to be with by and obviously they were at the club. When we asked Thomas Miller himself a basis the way ahead was rather less care cos. After me its hard to say i feel like im not sure i even remember what i was like whoa what i was thinking thats. All there is do remember the local mayor for one case today for the occasion and traditional of aerion cost you have to pay for this or that he was a typical bavarian rascal along with his brother and a few others hed be kicking around on the page from dawn to dusk. You could already see he was talented full of tricks and very companionable and respectful of the other guys just because of traits that would not be. Quite the talent quite the trickster but a boy pretty much like any other and for all his devotion to football there was enough time for regular trips to the local bakery. Kind of us and said yes thomas was very independent he liked buying sweets and most of all comics he always knew when we got them delivered they did come in and buy them he was always good at saving his pocket money. The precocious talents quickly grew the local football same an assignment for brian munich brought a young peon to south to a youth tournament in nearby moore now Thomas Miller remembers it well. It was on the floor and you get through a few stages and then theres the finals because we have eight teams involved. Usually including eight hundred sixteen unique and. For us to get our farmers a village team was a huge success you know and the final playoffs. For. From joyce in the prissy off the phone he caught my eye in one game scoring seven or eight goals. So his technique was nothing special but he was running about all over the place. I thought hes gone potential away from his mother and spoke to her she said oh no munich thats so far away fifty kilometers so i said well go on you can come along for a tryout and intolerance. And thats what happened but what if the trip to munich the big city really had been too far for his parents. Well hi him i guess theres been a few discussions about it. Obviously you can only do these things if your parents play along which. Im grateful mine did. You cant take that for granted because they werent doing it for their own and. Maybe they were otherwise id have been insufferable at harmons. So i figured better to drive him a few kilometers and keep him happy. And thats all mr please. Thats when it all started getting serious. In the bakery was a movie shows no sisters as well so office with the use of it we saw less of him after his and. Hed often go from the secondary school invite hire him straight through to training in many. He didnt have much spare time anymore. School lessons and football field. He basically sacrificed his childhood and used the focus is that once i knew. The first place to go for it but for miller it was a sacrifice willingly undertaken in a constantly challenging environment. He wasnt playing for brian as a youngster its obviously the stuff of dreams. But you certainly felt a bit of pressure. And the Academy System is broke but as with the show you know not everyone is going to make the cast and its the same story every year. So youre not looking for years down the line is just focusing. To doing and therefore. God it wasnt much time for reflection to ensure it was a case of get up go to school have lunch another half hour of school get on the triumph and back in the evening just crush out before. It was all worth this in the end two thousand and eight hundred youre going klinsmann miller got a first brief taste of bundesliga action he had to wait until the following year for his first professional contract and things really kicked off from there. Yeah most of it dormant in. September two thousand and nine a dortmund one all at half time. Totally fun child brought on from group three and still must muck and buy and shifted straight into top gear but i scored his first one is a good goal then promptly out of the seconds. Two im sure that was a nice one the first one was great emotional the second was great to look at as well. And was. Meant to finish his first professional season on Thirteen League goals by and second top scorer behind our young robin and ahead of the likes of mario gomez middle clothes and from gregory he wasted no time repaying the faith placing him by fun cause. Of it he felt if i hadnt delivered he would have played me. From there on in midair plays and played helping buy into a league. And cup double and to the Champions League final he also took his ban for germany and was top scorer at the two thousand and ten world cup all in his first full season no surprise to his hometown mayor. Point in time. On the bed is father thomas would soon be playing in the room this lady in the primitive. Man loves to cry to bear on that one what i think or feel or. What i was then i said heres your chance to win it back i bet he gets called up by germany next his father said i cant see that happening so quickly and early twenty ten he got the call up and i said sir johns you know thats the world cup and the last big roll there thats how he lost his third case of beer because people dont have. To tell much his fault their strategy was crystal clear. And i think for him its a win win situation there he is right i dont make it and he gets to. Use three crates of beer for a song to have a great world cup he did everything right he. Told us muller has now won six League Titles with bae and on the d. S. P. Called four times. Then there was the Champions League in twenty thirteen and a year later he helped her meet with the world cup. Not bad for a lanky boy from small temper fairly. To have no muscle on him. So we got him started but he became the player he is at by no doubt he had legs like a stork. See this call myself a lot of us a Little Village like this produce such a great footballer. He certainly put a lot of time and energy into it. Thomas hasnt changed and we all think thats great if you have changed his family and friends here would probably let him know about it but its any franker. It seems theres little danger of that happening any time soon to this extraordinary footballer with the ordinary name tomas minor. Charlies are inglese follows basic principle. My advice would be Something Like enjoy life from day to day dont go so quickly. Hes become a vital cog in the labor kids in midfield. Twelve thousand kilometers away from his current home on the banks of the rhine we find out more about charlize outweighs. He was never really much of a talker. From those whove known him for years so even now he calls me a. Former coaches and early mentors explain how it all began. As was very small but he had and still has this natural gift for playing football. Not this kind of. Out and hes a straight out in plenty out so just south of the chilean capital santiago. He grew up here in far from affluent surroundings. I was born in a fairly poor neighborhood and. Into poverty rearing. It soon became clear the most likely way i would be through football. Am i now. Im a staff social worker. And ive been him more than fifteen years now so i physical tonight around two thousand and two i still have a really clear image a little boy very very well behaved respectful and very. Money you always says his brother was his big hero. But various circumstances prevented him from becoming a professional footballer. The family then decided to focus their efforts on helping charlie is trying follow that path they gave him an enormous amount of support that allowed us and i tell you if we. Find out what you want out there anyone know i was lucky to have a wonderful mother and a great family. Thats what got me where i am today. His mother was also his first coach and when he got a place at the carrillo a club academy in two thousand and one solange potato took him under her wing. He pops into my Office Every Day to say hello hello and. He had to change the only School Reports so we could see how he was doing that. We also sometimes like the chatter out here on the page just to check on how he was getting on or if there were maybe any problems at home. Another important early mentor was Academy Coach actor cassidy although he doesnt like being described as the man who discovered charlize i was. Living i always used to tell all the boys if you make the grade as a professional youll be the ones and in the money not me. Many of actuaries young charges had quite deprived backgrounds he also had to remind them that there was more to life than football. And they were i didnt want to rob them of all their dreams but i did need to keep telling them you have to study as well you need to finish school you need to get your leaving certificate. Because if you get a serious injury you karimov be over by the time youre twenty or even earlier. Charlie has gone on like a mans life into that years later and only days after signing for leverkusen tearing his accolades tendon in training he was sidelined for months but was a great stuff. But yeah you do ask yourself why did this happen to me and why now of all times he just had a straight in twenty also named after him fresh from helping chile win the twenty fifteen copa america and was raring to go in the bundesliga. Again this i live and i. Am youre a long history in his face he dedicated to the no cannot he made us all the way to maybrick isnt an inspiration. Hes been dubbed Prince Charles his nickname since playing here. When we. Go to a lower a very special club for me thats where i learned the tools of my future trade as a professional footballer. Thats where i got to and i my closest friends. Kind of bubble where i met my wife for the f. A. Q. It was that cobra lower that out of languages began the long hard journey to the top absorbing the lessons that would later help him through his injury blogs with stars in the labor corps and he wasnt always as strong and fearless as he is now. So. I hope youll forgive me for this we were sitting on the plane and he held my arm and said. Im scared ive never flown before the year. So i asked him if he ever been on the left of course he said. See. Well this is just the same at some point in the flight i told him if you do youll be flying all the time. But i had the nerve to and now of course hes flying all over the world i wonder if you remembers that. Knows this is the. No daisy does greece is certainly not the type to forget his past. That is whole environment with all its poverty drugs and dollar and hes managed to leave it behind and im so proud of him proud to have known him when he was thirteen years old an ordinary modest kind nice friendly boy. Its the simple things in life that charlie stressors the here and now. We try not to get over focused on the future just live in the here and now. Be happy every day thats what we aim for. Its an approach thats worked well so far for football Prince Charles and grace. I catch a gifted. And downright explosive. This is the story of a young boy from getting a boy with a dream. Reason i was very young when i decided to become a footballer one day he just came and said please let me play football thats my future. His story a dream for so many youngsters in his home country you work hard and youll be successful. You know what i always encouraged him to passive ear and showed him that hard work gets his reward so now hes showing me all the. Cages journey took him from gagne to bundesliga stardom in germany. His story begins a twelve hour flight away from leipsic in guineas capital cannot create this is where he grew up with. His family a consideration well manners child as his mother fondly recalls. Nappy was a good boy when he came home he asked me if there was anything to do if there wasnt he went straight out to play football. At passion for the face of ok back then he was just one of the many conakry street footballers. She belonged to as kids we just played on the streets and the game didnt stop for oncoming traffic you know. You need to have your wits about you or not it was too much going to you know. We knew he could achieve something he was doing very well locally and everyone liked him. We were even advised to support our son financially if we could but we didnt have the means to do it. He continued to progress all the same thanks to his sheer talent and his Youth Team Coach and mentor. To guide. You know what. Came to me id ask him. Can you play here like ronaldinho now youd always tell me he had the ability to be better than one of the. Things to motivate him and help make him an even better plan thats are eventually turned out and theres no argument about the talent of. A to get nicknamed him ballon dor after the coveted prize case it was the best in his age group of his fathers pride and joy. Its a gift he was born with really even when he was still a little boy i knew he was going to be a great footballer one day and. That day has come on from the off and his and leipsic stay buganda sneak a season with his outstanding close control and metronomic accuracy. Craves and natural midfield lynchpin for rob hasnt hit us young guns but its everything he does makes sense and hes a joy to behold on the board basically indispensable. Basis cysts and a goals of his own and instrumental figure in life six second place finish before you want to do you want to pop awesome comes. At the start id never have believed that we could finish second at all that it would all go so well for the board because when i saw the team and like kind of work we were doing i soon realized weve got a young side here who can go a very long way. Quite a contrast to his first taste of european football in twenty thirteen when casey was eighteen with the french second tier. School and you know i had a lot of friends in conakry and france it was different everyone to have to fend for himself. From there the next step was to salzburg definitely the right decision. The Training Ground was fabulous it had everything for me it was a quantum leap and i thought what a stroke of luck landing up here this is somewhere i can really develop. But for all his talent he didnt have the easiest of starts at salzburg. I spent my First Six Months in austria warming the bench and i wasnt happy when i was frustrating but after i came back from the africa cup of nations i got my chance and if im not mistaken i scored a goal straight away. He hasnt looked back cases two years of salzburg serves of Successive League and cup doubles he was voted the austrian born this league as player of the year in twenty six states and that somewhere in life six waved in to sign him. The next step on the road from Humble Beginnings to the big stage. So he didnt do what i do i come from a poor family and a country thats relatively poor as well i guess so i took matters into my own hands and started looking out for myself. But he didnt forget his roots back in guinea he helped that where he can with donations for flood victims and youngsters in his own neighborhoods. A few blocks and when im there on holiday i buy banks of raw a soul sugar or something for handing out to people who need it to go on the banking on for hes free to do anything he can for the people hes that to help everyone with outtakes. Thats the task ive given him. His big heart is a product of his upbringing his mesmerizing ability on the ball a product of the streets playing in cannot craze improvised urban league he began to hone the skill set that would ultimately serve him so well his focus and determination were already apparent. I wonder what i did before we started he tell us how he was going to play you got the ball you gave him it and he just took it from there is a quality he possesses to this day a footballer playing his way to center stage. Thats. Right his solo gallops are the bane of opposition defenses is insatiable will to win a beer for all his colleagues. The michael out on the pitch i tell myself on the best i need to have that feeling not just for myself but to help the whole team here in the group with that same player whos right at home in leipsic. Single goal is that there are a lot of tourists and students like going to. In town its a really lovely city so. He carries another around in his heart. You should never forget where you come from. Im behind all the people who are behind him staring him on to give my son the strength to do what he wants to do im very proud of him not be dekel case or. His familys pride shared by an entire nation. The state. Environmental. Globa