Few players in the Premier League’s pool of talent excite and thrill as much as Wolverhampton Wanderers’s Adama Traore. Combining the build of an running back in American football with the speed of a sprinter, the Wolves winger is posing problems most opponents are unable to solve this season. Yet it is only now, at the age of 23, that Traore, nominated for the Premier League’s player of the month for December, is truly fulfilling his potential. His journey to Molineux began back in 1995 when Traore was born in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, on the outskirts of Barcelona. His mother, Fatouma, and father, Baba, had migrated to Spain from their native Mali, in West Africa, and it was here, alongside his older brother Mohamed, that…

Source: The Times January 03, 2020 17:03 UTC