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24 minutes ago, Beechey said:

“I think for me now the most important thing is to keep on playing. I missed only a couple of games in the first part of the season, but I want to play and I am not a guy who will go to a big club and sit on the bench."

“I am not interested in that. I want to play and Leicester gave me this opportunity."

 

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Blue belt to blue shirt – Leicester City’s Youri Tielemans gets to grips with the Premier League

 

Youri Tielemans has no concerns that he will be able to get to grips with the Premier League - thanks to his background in judo.

The midfielder has joined City on loan from Monaco until the end of the season and when he arrived there were comments in France that he could be physically knocked around the Premier League.

However, the 21-year-old has no such concerns and revealed his entire family are trained in the martial art as his parents were judo coaches.

 

His older brother and sister both compete and Tielemans himself reached the blue belt grade, although he always preferred football and gave up judo when he signed his first professional contract aged 16, shortly before he made his first-team debut at Anderlecht.

 

“I was almost never home because my parents were judo coaches,” said Tielemans, who grew up in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw outside Brussels.

“My brother and sister did their own things and my parents were driving from one place to another. They were all doing judo.

“I did judo as well until my first professional contract, because of my parents. I was a blue belt (two steps from black belt).

“I don’t know, maybe after my career I will go for my black belt, you never know. Football has been my priority.”

 

Family is all important to Tielemans and he has his wife and two-year-old daughter with him in Leicester, so don’t expect him to be swanning around the city’s night spots.

“It is different but I think Leicester is a nice town and people are so nice here,” he said after swapping the millionaire playground that is Monaco for a flat in Leicester.

“I feel at home, there is plenty of life in the city so it is good here.

“I felt at home directly and the players have helped me to get settled in and the club did very well too. I got my apartment very quickly so it is good.

“I am not a guy who is going out. You will never hear some stories about me because I like to stay at home as much as I can.

“I have my family so when I go home I have my little family waiting for me so it is always nice and a stable life.”

 

Tielemans has had a remarkable start to his career.

He joined Anderlecht when he was just five years old and made his debut at 16, becoming the fourth youngest player in the league’s history and the youngest Belgian player to play in the Champions League.

He was the Belgian young player of the year in his first two seasons but the awards and the accolades never turned his head.

“When you start you are always looking after the games at what people are saying about you and stuff like that but when you get older and you are playing more games you don’t mind what they are saying about you, because you know where you want to go and what you want to do,” he said.

“The outside world doesn’t matter any more and it is more easy for me now I have my family and I can switch off after games, and just think about families. It is better now.

“It was not difficult to cope with the praise because at the beginning it was very positive about me. I was really young and it was always positive.

“I tried to keep going and do my stuff, and keep both feet on the ground. It worked well.”

 

That balanced outlook certainly came in handy when he moved to Monaco in a €25million deal and struggled in his first season, with France Football dubbing him flop of the season.

“I didn’t look at it,” he says, matter of factly.

“I knew where I was going. The first season in a new country is always difficult, away from Anderlecht. It was different for me. I had to adapt and I knew it was a different life too, so I didn’t care what they wrote.

“I didn’t have time to think about it as I had the World Cup too to think about. Thanks to the World Cup, it was fantastic. It was amazing after that.”

 

Tielemans helped Belgium finish third in Russia, beating an England side that contained City team-mates Harry Maguire and Jamie Vardy twice on the way, but although he has bragging rights he is not about to rub their faces in it, even if he is skilled in judo.

“No I don’t joke about results because afterwards it can backfire,” he said.

“It can be a negative if they win in an important game. It was fantastic for Belgium.

“They are a fantastic team and it was very difficult to open them up, and to play through their lines.

“They were solid and they all play in top teams. They are very young and will improve. They will have a really good team.”

 

As for City, two things stand out for Tielemans – the title success of 2016 and the terrible helicopter crash last October that claimed the life of chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

“I have some good memories and some sad memories too,” said Tielemans, referring to the tragedy.

“The achievement of the championship in 2016 was fantastic. I also had an old team-mate playing in this team, Marcin Wasilewski, and I was very pleased for him to win the title.

“He was so hard-working in the gym.”

 

Now that would have been a judo match to savour...

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-youri-tielemans-judo-2549659

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Great interview and just what the fans want to hear. Superb debut but let's hope we fans give him a chance. Not to put a downer on things but the last time I remember everyone getting so excited by a debut was probably Zsolt Laczko against Coventry and we all know what happened after that.

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On 15/02/2019 at 20:34, Dr The Singh said:

I really hope he doesn't do a Diabate and get all of his confidence taken out of him

The difference between Diabate and Tielemans though is the latter is a proven top flight player, Diabate was signed for his potential but tbh other than his debut against a League 1 club, he’s never looked anything better than Championship quality. 

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On 15/02/2019 at 19:09, Beechey said:

“I think for me now the most important thing is to keep on playing. I missed only a couple of games in the first part of the season, but I want to play and I am not a guy who will go to a big club and sit on the bench."

“I am not interested in that. I want to play and Leicester gave me this opportunity."

 

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Like i predicted. No ties with Monaco, doesn't need to play at the big clubs, doesn't want to sit on the bench, needs to play.

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3 hours ago, funkyrobot said:

The difference between Diabate and Tielemans though is the latter is a proven top flight player, Diabate was signed for his potential but tbh other than his debut against a League 1 club, he’s never looked anything better than Championship quality. 

So was Adrien Silva, Slimani and guess what, even European championship winners get sucked

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