Ben Davies, 31, is a longtime best friend of Son Heung-min, 32.
After Gareth Bale returned to his parent club on loan for the 2020-2021 season, a “Welsh mafia” was formed at Tottenham. Davies and Joe Roden were among them. They were joined by Davies and Joe Roden.
Bale retired from Welsh soccer last January after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Wales are in the final stretch to qualify for Euro 2024 in Germany.
A win in the Euro 2024 qualifying playoff final against Poland at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, on Sunday at 4:45 a.m. (ET) will punch their ticket to the tournament. Wales defeated Finland 4-1 in the semifinals on Feb. 22.
Davies is the captain of Wales. Davies has been a mainstay of the offense this season alongside Tottenham’s Brennan Johnson.
As Davies heads into the showdown, the past is being revisited.
Twelve years ago, on October 27, 2012, The Sun featured an unknown Davies playing for Swansea City in the English Premier League (EPL).
The Swans were about to play Man City, and Davies’ and Yaya Toure’s weekly salaries were the center of attention. Davies’ weekly wage was £400 (about $678,000), 안전놀이터 추천 while Toure’s was a whopping £240,000 (about $468,000). That’s a 600-fold difference.
Davies confirms this is true: “My first professional contract was a bit more than the youth team. “I was playing in the EPL and still only getting paid £400 a week,” he says. “At the time, after The Sun’s story, I got messages from plumbers saying ‘come and work for a week’. But looking back, it’s a memory,” he laughs.
Davies made his professional debut in August 2012 and moved to Tottenham from Swansea City in 2014. He is a “year older” than Son Heung-min, who arrived at Spurs in August 2015.
With 10 seasons at Tottenham, he is the oldest ‘most senior’ player in the current squad. The 400-pound, life-changing myth.