Former Barcelona forward Thierry Henry has sent a message to youngsters of the game, saying that he believes they should try to copy Thomas Muller and not Lionel Messi.
German international Muller had another superb season for club and country last term, helping his country win the World Cup and Bayern Munich win the Bundesliga title.
And, former Arsenal striker Henry believes that kids of today should try to copy Muller, rather than spend time trying to copy the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, whom he called ‘freaks’.
“Stepovers, tricks, that’s not the game,” he told reporters.
“The game is what Thomas Muller is doing. If I had a son right now, playing, I would say to him ‘look at them, look at [Franck] Ribery, look at Muller.’
“What Ronaldo does, and Messi, they’re just freaks. Don’t try to copy those guys. You can copy from Ribery, you can copy from Thomas Muller.
“What he did at the World Cup, people don’t talk about it. They don’t talk about it, but they should talk about it.
“He plays the game the right way: he defends, he attacks, he controls the ball when he has to control it, he reverses when he has to reverse it. When he has to finish, he’ll finish. He doesn’t do stepovers, but when he has to perform, he performs. He does what the game asks him to do.”