Everton ace Dominic Calvert-Lewin has revealed how one meeting at Sheffield United saw him switch from midfielder to striker.
Calvert-Lewin has revealed the Sheffield United meeting which changed his career.
Calvert-Lewin was a midfielder in his formative years at United before suffering with growing pains and Osgood-Schlatter.
The Everton striker told Sky: "I was with the under-18s away at Cardiff and I was a second year scholar, wanting to be in the first-team, but I wasn't quite there.
"It was getting frustrated and my coach at the time, Travis Binnion, could see it.
“He gave me a rollocking after a game at Cardiff – I played centre midfield and didn't think I played that bad – and told me to come in the following day, on the Sunday.
"Everyone else was off and he said to come in for a coffee with him and the academy manager, Nick Cox.
"He sat me down and we went through England players who were my age, who were being called up, and where I wanted to be. My dreams and goals.
"And he said: 'If we said to anyone about your best attributes, they'd probably put you as a centre-forward on paper. So we're going to try you as a centre-forward.'
“And it was like something switched, like I had a new lease of life."
