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He grew up in a modest end-terrace house squeezed beside a parade of nondescript takeaways and beauty salons in Stockport.
But Phil Foden’s rapid rise to footballing stardom has transformed the lives of the England winger and his family.
And tomorrow, the nation will gather to hope – and pray– that his scintillating talent can also fire the Three Lions into the quarter finals of the World Cup.
Foden – or ‘Ronnie’ as he is universally known to family and friends – is arguably the most complete English footballer of his generation and his wages at Manchester City were recently trebled to in excess of £200,000-a-week.
Manchester City player Phil Foden (left) – or ‘Ronnie’ as he is universally known to family and friends – lives in a £2.85million mansion with his partner Rebecca Cooke, 21 (right), along with his son and daughter
Such wealth has enabled the 22-year-old to buy his family a £3million, six-bed gated house in the picturesque Cheshire village of Prestbury.
On top of that, earlier this year, he and his partner Rebecca Cooke, 21, moved down the road into their own £2.85million mansion, along with his son also called Ronnie, three, and their one-year-old daughter.
It’s a far cry from those early days when Foden was a football-mad boy kicking his ball in the street where he lived in Edgeley with his parents, Phil Sr and Claire, and older brother Callum.
Indeed his growing fortune has also changed the life of his paternal grandmother Mary, enabling him to buy the 61-year-old a £200,000 bay-fronted house just up the road from where he grew up.
She was the one who first gave him the nickname ‘Ronnie’, calling him ‘Ronnie Roundhead’ due to the shape of his head. And the death of her partner, Foden’s grandfather, Walter at the age of 47 inspired his Man City squad number. Family clearly means a lot to Foden, who also has four younger siblings, and he remains proud of his Stockport roots.
Scouted by Man City as a youngster, Foden worked his way through their academy and made his debut in 2017, aged 17
He grew up in a modest end-terrace house squeezed beside a parade of nondescript takeaways and beauty salons in Stockport
He has also spoken of feeling the ‘pressure’ to use his earnings to repay his parents for their support. In an interview with last month’s Esquire
