<p>Yildiz best friend and… “Where did you find someone like that?”: Huijsen, the background</p>

After leaving Juventus in the summer to move to Bournemouth , Dean Huijsen is already establishing himself as one of the best defenders in the Premier League . The 2005-born player also made his debut for the Spanish national team, attracting more and more attention from the big clubs. With the season almost over, Huijsen spoke to gianlucadimarzio.com .

The defender began by talking about his first memories in the world of football: "If I close my eyes, there's me and my father and we're playing football. If I hadn't been a footballer... I would have been an entrepreneur. Today I want to win everything." He then made room for a joke about Kenan Yildiz with whom he grew up in the Juventus youth team: "We're best friends: we talk often. We have a group where we talk. Kenan has great potential, he makes plays that are out of the ordinary. He has the mind to be able to get to the top. I live my life, I simply play football. I don't think much about anything else. My professional debut at San Siro ? I was calm and happy to be able to fulfil my dream."

Huijsen then spoke about the environment he found at Bournemouth : "There is a great project here, there are young players. Our way of playing without fear helps us, you could see it during the year" . Instead on his memories in Serie A : " Allegri, Mourinho and De Rossi are special. In terms of football, I learned a lot from Bremer and Mancini . Dybala and Lukaku are life teachers" . Then on the choice to wear the Spain shirt instead of Holland : "I have a lifestyle that is similar to theirs, even in culture. My parents are Dutch, but I feel Spanish" . Finally on his plans for the future: "To be remembered as a good person" .

Tiago Pinto , sporting director of Bournemouth and former Roma player , also spoke very positively about Dean Huijsen : “When Huijsen arrived in Rome, two days later his teammates were asking me where I had found someone like him. For me today he is one of the five best central defenders in the world and in two years he will be the best. Signing Huijsen is like taking a lottery ticket knowing that it is already a winner. Dean also because of his family has grown to be the number 1: he has a crazy mentality, crazy self-confidence, he is a very intelligent boy, he speaks five languages ​​and has incredible support from his family. It can't go badly”.

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