Marcus Rashford (born 31 October 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
A Manchester United player from the age of seven, he scored two goals on both his first-team debut against Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League in February 2016 and his Premier League debut against Arsenal three days later.
He also scored in his first Manchester derby match, his first EFL Cup match and his first UEFA Champions League match. With United, Rashford has so far won the FA Cup, EFL Cup, FA Community Shield and UEFA Europa League.
In an exclusive interview airing tomorrow morning on BBC Breakfast, Marcus Rashford joins his mum Mel to discuss experiencing food poverty whilst growing up.
Talking with BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent, Mel recalls holding down multiple jobs to keep food on the table for Marcus and his siblings. "I had three jobs and if I didn’t do that we wouldn’t have been able to cook a pot of food, it’s just a bit difficult," she said, "So Marcus is only telling the story from how he sees it and the words he has been saying come from the bottom of his heart.” On particularly challenging days she revealed: "Sometimes it was really bad, I’d rather give the food to the kids than give it to myself, sometimes I didn’t get anything to eat. "Sometimes we didn’t
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