Athletes are often wanderers in search of adventure just like Alexander Arnold

Have talent, will travel. Own boots, will fly. In sport, everyone has a suitcase ready, for it’s the nature of the game. Today a football transfer. Tomorrow an NBA trade. So skill is packed, taken to a foreign landscape, and challenge accepted in a new regime.

Greatness is a long chase with many stations. To make history you often need to change geography. Andy Murray went to Spain at 15 to train. At six, Maria Sharapova moved to America and was away from her mother for two years. Sport, in every way, is underpinned by constant movement. A boy named Diego, born not far from Buenos Aires, became a holy figure in Naples. A lovely show-off from Funchal, Portugal was anointed in Manchester.

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