Like Father Like Son

The idiom “Like father like son” is not just another rhetoric used to fill up empty spaces, not in football at least. Not just football but sports in general have dynasties of sportsmen who have throughout successfully passed over the legacy and the skills to their successors. A general deduction is that the heir have taken up the mantle and proven to be a better specimen. Take Stuart Broad and Yuvraj Singh for instance, two of the best players this year in the cricketing arena have their genes to thank for their success. Or Sergio Busquets, the Catalan midfield enforcer, who carried on where his father left after he lifted the European top honor- Champions league like his father Carles did. Frank Lampard Junior is never called by this name because of his stellar performances in the heart of Chelsea’s midfield. The news that Zinedine Zidane’s son was included in the first squad training at Real Madrid by Jose Mourinho created somewhat of a stir linking the kid to his father’s greatness as well as the possibility of joining the first team squad at Madrid in the near future. Though it seems to far-fetched for anyone likes, but you can not deny the fact that it all adds and seems justifiable. Though there have been few scions who bowed down to the constant comparison and the expectation of being as good as their fathers, Jordi Cryuff could never make it like his father Johan both as player and a manager, Rohan Gavaskar found out that the days were way too sunny for his liking , he barely made his name outside Bengal. Nonetheless keeping the discussion to football only, here’s a list of few of the players looking to make their daddies proud.

Thiago Alcantara – The young Barcelona midfielder who has Xavi, Iniesta and now Fabregas as competitors for his spot in the first team is still tipped by many as the future for Barcelona and Spain( though it could have been Brazil if he had switched his allegiance to his father’s country ). Thiago, born to the Brazilian...