Following his recent heroics for kids in England, Manchester United star Marcus Rashford has been praised by his former manager Jose Mourinho, whom he will go up against when the Red Devils take on Tottenham Hotspur on Friday night.
While many footballers spent lockdown working out and doing fitness routines at home, Rashford did that and much more, raising around £20 million (R431 million) and successfully inspiring the England government to keep feeding hungry kids.
Speaking ahead of Spurs' Premier League clash with United on Friday night, Mourinho said he is proud to see his former player being the man he is today.
"He did amazingly well, I congratulate him for that," he told talkSPORT.
"It's a bit strange for me that one football player can make it happen – if it happened then that means the government thinks it's the right thing to do.
"They shouldn't wait for one player to publicly put pressure on for that to happen.
"The 18-year-old that I met a few years ago is now a man, and a man with principles to fight for kids very similar to him when he was a kid.
"That is something very, very nice from Marcus."
United are currently fifth on the table, three points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, while Spurs are eighth on the log.
