Declan Rice: How England midfeilder overcame rejection to become key Euro 2020 figure
That competitive fire, it seems, emanated from a sheer love of the game.
On regular Tuesday evenings, Rice would play a full game for Grey Court, after which his mum, Theresa, would come to collect him, passing him his Chelsea kit and a tub of pasta before whisking him off to training at the club's Cobham academy. Wigmore remembers having to substitute Rice 10 minutes into a local derby against Orleans Park School because he'd scored four goals. "It was too easy and not fair to keep him on," the teacher says.
"I always saw him as a player who could play at the top level because of the desire he's got," Taylor says. "Nothing fazes him. He's got a winning mentality. "There had been a lot of scouting of him," remembers Dave Hunt, West Ham's head of academy recruitment. "When he popped out at under-14, I was quite shocked at the time but acted quickly to get him in the next day. It was that quick. I spoke to him the next day and he came in that week.
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