Hector Bellerin has admitted he had very little to offer defensively when he joined Arsenal from Barcelona in 2011 and has hailed assistant manager Steve Bould s role in his development.
The 20-year-old has become Arsenal s first-choice right back this season and he feels he would not be where he is now if it were not for Bould s guidance.
When I first came to Arsenal, I didn t know how to defend, Bellerin was quoted as saying by The Sun.
If there was a person who I had to identify as helping me a lot, that would have to be Bould. I was a winger but from the Under-18s up, I remember him just showing me the basics.
Even then, I remember him sometimes holding his head like, What is Hector doing? . He s been one of the key people in my career. He s one of the reasons I m here now.
Steve was a top defender himself and has so much knowledge. Sometimes when he s speaking, I just laugh because he makes it look so easy and so obvious, and you haven t realised before. I really enjoy learning with him.
