I'm the same guy I was and I will never, ever change.

The support of the family can help a person achieve greatness, and this was certainly the case with Dominik Szoboszlai, who expressed his gratitude to his father for helping him become the captain of the Hungarian team and a player for Liverpool, reads the official website of the Premier League.

The Premier League conducted a short interview with the Hungarian midfielder as part of the "No Room For Racism" initiative.

His father and the beginnings

“When I started, me and my dad had a plan. He put me at the highest level where I should play," said Szoboszlai.

"After school, my dad simply picked me up. We went to practice. He was my coach and every day from three to seven he was the same:

I trained with my own team, I trained with the youngsters, I trained with the seniors, then I went to sleep and the next day was the same"

- continued the Hungarian star player.

"He was always tougher with me than with the others.

Even the other parents asked: Why are you so hard on him?. He said: It will pay off, and it will pay off in the end. But he always wanted me to be the best, and that's why he was like that, and now I understand why he did it, and now we're close, very close."

Hard work paid off

"At the end of the day, I'm a Liverpool player now, captain of the national team, so yeah, it was almost like we planned the impossible and I made it possible," he said in the interview.

Szoboszlai also spoke about how he is proud to be Hungarian and that he had to overcome the obstacle to prove to people that he can become a great player and inspire Hungarian children in the same way that Ferenc Puskás, one of the country's once his greatest player did.

"I like being Hungarian"

- added the 22-year-old player.

He has proven himself, but he does not want to be the new Puskás

"I'm proud to be able to play in the Premier League, but of course you have to prove yourself as a Hungarian, because if you're Hungarian, no one looks at you as if you were Spanish, Italian, or English, so as a Hungarian, if you succeed, it's even better," he emphasized.

"I've said it before, he [Puskás] is an iconic player, the best player who ever played in Hungary, there's no doubt about that, but I want to do my own thing.

I don't want to be the new Puskás, but Szoboszlai.

I will be the same person I was when I lived in a one-room apartment with my family at the age of 13.

I'm the same guy I was and I will never, ever change

- He told.

Featured image: MTI/Szilárd Koszticsák