Ibou - Building on a big dream

[Red rose]

I love Ibou. he’s great !



Ibrahima Konate sees inspiration all around him at Liverpool.

Among the many pleasing highs of Konate’s opening 12 months on Merseyside was his April scoring streak as he found the net in three successive appearances.
He broke the deadlock in each leg of the Champions League quarter-final versus Benfica and then set the Reds on their way to an Emirates FA Cup semi-final win over Manchester City with a towering header at Wembley.
And the 23-year-old has revealed how encouraging advice from Thiago Alcantara played a crucial role in his prolific run inside the opposition area.
“This was crazy,” said Konate. “It was good for the team, that’s more important. When I scored the first goal, after that I was confident. I hope this season I will score more than the last season.
“I spoke about this one time with Thiago in training and he told me, ‘When you go you have to believe. You are strong, you are big, you have to go.’ I said, ‘Yes, this is a good word for me.’ And I did it.”
Of course, Konate’s chief role when in the XI is to stop goals and it’s on that theme that we return to the subject of inspiration.
With an insatiable hunger to learn from those around him, the Parisian has ample role models to study in the likes of Joe Gomez, Joel Matip and Virgil van Dijk.

 

[moron]

I will never forget how he kept Kante under control in the final !!!

 

[Frogfish]

I like this :

The conclusion – the abiding memory – was the end-of-season parade the following day, attended by 500,000 supporters and serving as both healing experience and inspiration refill.
Konate’s fluent English rarely skips a beat, but he’s briefly lost for words when asked to recall the impact that day had on him and his teammates.
“Oh my God, this was too much,” he smiles. “When we started, for me it was already crazy. When we started, the first 20 minutes I was very happy. After, I enjoyed it a lot but I was a little bit tired.
“After one or two hours I spoke with Divock and Ox and they said, ‘What? Are you happy now? OK, wait, you will see.’ I said, ‘What will I see?’ At the end, when we arrived in the city… [puffs out cheeks] I was really not ready for that. Oh my God. I will never forget this moment.

 

[Red rose]

Yeh, I like that too. 🙂 what an experience!

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[Red rose]

Ibouuuu

 

[Judge Jules]

Calling his English "fluent" is pushing it, but it's still a good interview and I've been majorly impressed by him. He has the lot - strength, pace, confidence on the ball - and he's so young he's almost bound to get better still. I love the way he laughs at opposition players who are daft enough to try and push him around. Lookin' good.