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As a young buck let go by Arsenal’s academy as a teenager, Stephy Mavididi received a message from Gunners legend Thierry Henry with instructions on how to achieve his dream of being a Premier League footballer. ‘Be brave, believe in yourself,’ it read.
It has been a long road back to the top for Mavididi, now 25, via loans in the Football League and training alongside Cristiano Ronaldo when at Juventus’ Under 23 side. But he was recommended to French club Dijon by Henry and has not looked back since.
He is now an integral member of Enzo Maresca’s Leicester side having joined from Montpellier and soon could complete his Premier League ambitions. A goal and assist here helped the Foxes to stop the rot of a nightmare month that saw them win just one of the previous six.
Mavididi is starring in this new-look Leicester team who had, until recently, taken this league by storm. He scored alongside ever-improving Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall. But there is still room for the old guard, seen by substitute Jamie Vardy making sure of the three points in stoppage time.
Leicester were 14 points clear of third in the Championship on Valentine’s Day but started Easter Monday outside the automatic promotion places. Reports of their demise, though, seem to
