This morning’s edition of the Sun has a nice piece about Reece James, taking people through his rise from park football in Kew to Chelsea’s (almost) starting right back, and England’s brightest defensive prospect.
To many Chelsea fans who have been following Reece, it’s standard stuff. Dad Nigel, sister Lauren, training every day, scouted by Chelsea, youth team hero, loan to Wigan… we all know the stages by now.
But there are some interesting slivers we hadn’t heard before in there too.
One of them is that apparently Reece, as a 13 year old, “struggled with his weight,” meaning we guess he gained too much weight rather than couldn’t put any on.
He apparently did “extra sessions with a fitness coach” on his own time, at dawn on a Sunday. That kind of thing is enough to make a man out of anyone, and it certainly turned Reece into a next level physical specimen.
