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‘SOMETIMES I DREAM IN ENGLISH THESE DAYS ! ’

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The LeaguePaper Team
9 September 2018

BIG INTERVIEW: DAVID RAYA

MAN TO THANK: Hugo Fernandez playing for Blackburn U21s

GLORY NIGHT: Blackburn’s David Raya celebrates promotion

BESIDES a shared mother tongue, David Raya hasn’t got much in common with Gabriel Batistuta.
One is a young goalkeeper for Blackburn Rovers. The other a legendary striker who won Serie A and played in three World Cups. Both, however, owe their discovery to vaunted team-mates who failed to make the grade.
In 1991, Batistuta was merely the makeweight in a deal that saw Diego ‘the new Maradona’ Latorre move to Fiorentina fro...

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