Jude Bellingham 'proud' to win Laureus Breakthrough of the Year

Reward. How does it feel and what do you make of the evening? Good evening, everyone. Yeah, it’s been a great evening. Honored to be here in front of so many amazing athletes and, you know, inspirational people and yeah, really grateful to pick up a trophy as well. And yeah, it was a great year and I’m really proud of it and yeah, I’ve got that to kind of reflect it, which is really nice. You, the last 24 hours have been crazy for you. You scored the winning goal in El Clasico and the minute 91st and now you’re making history because. You are the first footballer who has won these awards. Yeah, it’s been a bit of a bit of a crazy week, really. I’m so tired, to be honest. So excuse me if I look a bit. But yeah, it’s, it’s been a mad few days. And yeah, I’m really proud to to win this award, like I said, and, you know, hopefully keep making more memories with Real Madrid and with England in the future. And yeah, hopefully I’ll be back speaking about Real Madrid in England. Well, it’s been a remarkable season for you in both terms. How would you see success in the end of the season? I think just more trophies really. You know, we’re still in with a chance of two with Madrid and obviously the EUR with England. So I think success would be all three. But yeah, it takes a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice and hopefully we can, it can happen. The decisive moment is coming. And last but not least, we are in the laurels. Gala and Laurius is an institution which uses sport as a tool to change society through their programs for for good. How do you see sport as being enabled to make a difference in society? I think it’s important as athletes that we understand that, you know, whilst we get into these sports because we, we love them and we enjoy the, the buzz that we get from that, that as we become more popular, you know, you, you end up having a platform and you do have to understand your responsibility to the next generation, to people who are watching. And I think for me, it’s something that I try and take really seriously. You know, I’m not perfect and I’m going to make mistakes, but you know, I definitely want to try and help people along the way and, and try and, yeah, help people and give them the opportunity to get to the place that I’ve got to because a lot of other people have given me that chance previously. Well dude, thank you so much. Enjoy the evening and good luck for the rest of the season. Take care everyone. Good Bellingham.