The exclusion of has made a lot of noise Marcus Rashford from Ruben Amorim’s squad for the latest Manchester derby. Last Sunday, however, i Red Devils they managed to impose themselves at the home of Guardiola’s City, even without the English striker, one of the symbols of this United. Rashford was disappointed and confessed it on the sidelines of an event at ‘Button Lane’, the Manchester primary school he attended as a child: “”I feel misunderstood, but it’s okay. I am a very simple person. I love football. It’s been my life from the beginning. It’s disheartening – says Rashford on the exclusion, as reported by English journalist Henry Winter – to be excluded from a derby, but it happened, we won the game, so let’s move on. It’s disappointing, but I’m also someone who can handle setbacks as I get older. What will I do about it? I’m not going to sit there and cry, but I’m going to do my best the next time I’m available.”
“I’m halfway through my career. I don’t expect – Rashford again – that my best moment is now. I’ve played nine years in the Premier League so far and that’s taught me a lot, it’s helped me grow as a player and as a person. So I have no regrets about the last nine years. I will have regrets in the future because I take things day by day and sometimes bad things happen, sometimes good things I just try to keep a good balance.” The best is yet to come? “100%. That’s my mentality,” replies the English striker.
Among Rashford’s objectives is also a return to the national team ahead of the World Cup scheduled for 2026: “It still excites me to think about playing for your country in the biggest competition in the world. I’ve already had the chance to do it in the past (Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, ed.) and it’s an incredible experience. If I have it again I will opportunity, I will try to seize it with both hands.”
