00:00He scored a hat trick against the team he was supposed to join this summer, but which is Eberechi Eze.
00:04Born on June 29, 1998 in Greenwich in southeast London, little Eze grew up in a neighborhood that was far from privileged.
00:10After school, it's off to the cage, small areas surrounded by wire mesh where he plays until his parents call him back.
00:16And there, no real structure, no comfort, just the ball and the street and an idol, Ronaldinho.
00:21It was there that the young Englishman would forge his style, made up of dribbling and creativity.
00:24In college, he will meet a certain Bright Osai Samuel with whom he will play for Queen's Park Rangers.
00:29And so very quickly, he will enter the world of academies.
00:31First at Arsenal, then Fulham, Reading, Millwall.
00:35Everywhere he goes, he will join training centers, but in the end, he will be rejected.
00:38At 13, he was released by Arsenal.
00:40He will end up in Millwall without a professional contract.
00:42But even though Eze is on the verge of being eliminated from football, he's not going to give up.
00:45And in 2017, Queen's Park Rangers gave him another chance.
00:49He will make his debut with the team, then he will be loaned to Wicom Wanderers where he will score 5 goals.
00:53Then he exploded in 2019-2020 with 14 goals in 46 championship matches.
00:58His low-level performances are, of course, attracting the attention of the first league.
01:00And in 2020, Crystal Palace will be the ones to bet on him.
01:02And there, Eze will become a major player.
01:05A goalscorer, a passer, a player who is capable of creating, I quote,
01:08magical moments that throw a team off balance.
01:10And that quote is from Mikel Arteta.
01:12Five years later, at the peak of his career at Crystal Palace with the English club,
01:15He will win the AFA Cup and then the Community Shield.
01:18And in the summer of 2025, the story will come full circle with Crystal Palace.
01:21He's going to be very, very close to joining Tottenham.
01:23But it was ultimately Arsenal who signed him for just under 80 million euros.
01:2714 years after being kicked out of the center, he returns to his childhood club.
01:30And he won't leave a lasting mark on history.
01:32because he will score a hat trick in the North London Derby against Tottenham.
01:35This is the first hat trick in the history of this clash in the first league.
01:38And at that point, Arsenal will take a 6-point lead over the second-placed team in the Premier League.
01:41And while Jamie Carragher is making a bit of a mea culpa for having criticized him,
01:45Arteta will talk about an aura that the team needed.
01:47Behind the brilliant player, there is a mindset obsessed with progress.
01:50And Z reiterates that he still has a long way to go.
01:52that he doesn't just want to be happy to be there, but that he wants to continue climbing the ladder.
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