E34 - Tyrone Mings: How our struggles lead to our successes
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4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Tyrone Mings is a defender for Aston Villa and England, with a real life story of rags to riches in English football.
Tyrone joined Southampton as a kid but suffered rejection when he was released by Saints in 2009 for being 'too small'. He dropped down to Non-League, playing for Yate Town and Chippenham Town while working as a mortgage advisor.
He seriously considered packing football in all together but got his break when Ipswich signed him up for a fee of £10,000 before sealing an £8 million move to Bournemouth and realising his dream of becoming a Premier League player. A serious knee injury restricted his early appearances before a loan switch to Aston Villa in 2019 saw him help the Midlands club to promotion from the Championship.
Tyrone sealed a permanent move to Villa for £26.5 million and was called up to Gareth Southgate's England squad in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, welcome once again to the High Performance Podcast and wherever you're listening |
| 0:06.7 | to this in the world. I know it would have been a slightly strange Christmas as it has |
| 0:10.8 | been for all of us, but I hope despite that, you had a good Christmas all the same. And |
| 0:15.1 | this is it then, our final podcast of 2020. Don't worry though, Series 3 is not over yet. |
| 0:20.9 | We'll be back with a huge name to kickstart 2021. I'm talking of big names, a quick shout |
| 0:26.6 | out to Sam Curran, current England cricket international, got in touch this week on Instagram |
| 0:31.1 | to say he's enjoying the podcast. I also had some nice messages from Phil Neville saying |
| 0:35.6 | how much he enjoyed the episode with the England women's football captain Steph Horton, |
| 0:40.2 | but a really nice message as well from Theresa who got in touch. And she said, I don't |
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| 0:50.3 | pod whilst on maternity leave, so I'm binge-listing. It's so refreshing to find something of this |
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| 1:00.3 | that listens to the high performance podcast, this week our guest is a current England international |
| 1:06.5 | who also has a great story to share. Here's what he tells us. |
| 1:12.0 | For the first couple months, I probably did nothing but drink. Now, if you think about |
| 1:15.3 | what is those counterproductive to inflammation in knee, alcohol is probably right up there. |
| 1:21.3 | It was an awful time and I remember going to the manager at Bournemouth and think I broke |
| 1:26.2 | down in here and just in tears and was like, I don't even know where these tears are coming |
| 1:30.6 | from. I mean, I'm doing rehab. I'm here. Yeah, I don't feel great because I got injured, |
| 1:34.6 | but surely there must be more to it than that. |
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