Ferdinand sees echoes of Owen in Walcott
China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-10 08:10
LONDON: Theo Walcott has been giving his England team-mate Rio Ferdinand a sense of deja-vu ahead of Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan and the Manchester United defender has only just worked out why.
Walcott has an inner confidence that seems eerily familiar and Ferdinand traces it back to the World Cup Finals in 1998 when Michael Owen first burst onto the international scene as a raw and exciting 18-year-old.
Now he believes the 19-year-old Arsenal winger has the potential to follow in Owen's footsteps and become a major name in world football.
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