Myron Boadu is the big man at AZ after his three goals in the home game against Feyenoord (4-2) on Sunday. However, the attacker was also dry for a long time this season, which resulted in a lot of criticism of the only twenty-year-old striker. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, among others, instructed Boadu to take the profession of a professional football player a lot more seriously. The attackers know each other from their joint rehabilitation period a few years ago.
“I saw him rehabilitate in America after his cruciate ligament injury. I will never see anything like that in my life, I think”, Boadu says in an interview with the Algemeen Dagblad. “I have not had contact with him for a while, but you will always remember something like that, of course. Contact is arranged in such a way through our agent (Mino Raiola, ed.)”, The top scorer from AZ refers to his special relationship with the now 39- year old striker of AC Milan. Besides Ibrahimovic, Kees Kist is also a teacher and the former AZ striker even visited Boadu last Friday after training.
Boadu supports Van Basten after a hat-trick against Feyenoord
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Kist was recently very critical of Boadu’s performance and the former attacker wanted to have a ‘cup of coffee’ with the AZ’er. “Who doesn’t want to talk to such a greatness?” Boadu wonders aloud in conversation with The Telegraph. “Kees had been an attentive spectator during a final exercise and then gave me some tips. That I should remain calmer if I get a chance, but that I should be more aggressive in putting pressure”, he gives an insight into the conversations with the involved Kist.
Boadu also receives the necessary advice closer to home, such as from his sister and father. “They are often aligned,” the young attacker clarifies. “My sister thinks that I should be stingier in certain situations, that I should just shit about it, that I should go for myself more.” Father Boadu was a lot fiercer in his words. “He didn’t rant at me, but he just said: ‘Myron, shoot from a distance! You can do that very well, why don’t you ever do it?’ So that was the first goal, which Marcos Senesi touched lightly by the way “, Boadu refers to AZ’s 1-1 in the home game with Feyenoord.