Gylfi Sigurdsson reflects on youth watching English football and getting his big break

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Gylfi Sigurdsson was a Blue from the day he was photographed standing by the Dixie Dean statue at Goodison Park aged 11. The young Sigurdsson trained with Everton for a week nearly two decades ago and even got to be a ball boy.

The picture of the him, wearing an Everton sweatshirt, was taken by his older brother Olafur Mar, who sent CDs of him playing to clubs in England to land him his big break.

Olafur Mar trained Sigurdsson as a kid and got his sibling a trial with Preston before Reading signed him to their academy at 16. “I think my interest in football in England started very young,” said the Everton star. “The Premier League was on TV and my dad and my brother used to watch it. “So naturally, I sat there on a Sunday watching