When Hector Bellerin got a follow request from a member of Arsenal’s under-13s back in 2011, he can’t have imagined he’d be sharing a pitch with him for the first team.
Chris Willock could easily have been dismissed as yet another chancer, but the confident teenager who opened his message with a friendly “hola Hector” has come a long way in the four years since.
@HectorBellerin hola Hector, im arsenal academy u13, follow me hermano 😉
— Chris Willock (@ChrisWillock_) December 20, 2011
Midfielder Willock replaced Mathieu Flamini in the second half of a friendly against the Singapore Select XI, and saw his ‘hermano’ join him on the pitch just minutes later.
It reminds us of that famous image of Ryan Giggs meeting an aspiring United youth-teamer by the name of Danny Welbeck.
Follow your dreams, kids.
Caption this: A young Danny Welbeck and Ryan Giggs…… pic.twitter.com/kKrz9uu37O
— SJF1971 (@SJF_LFC) March 10, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD0DECD9CR8
