A Bright Future Awaits
Dorset Magazine|February 2018

Fletch looks back on the remarkable achievements of Lewis Cook in 2017 and predicts a promising future for the Cherries midfielder who tasted World Cup glory in South Korea over the summer

Steve Fletcher
A Bright Future Awaits
FROM captaining England’s under-20 side to FIFA U-20 World Cup glory over the summer, to receiving his first call-up to Gareth Southgate’s senior side in November, without doubt 2017 has been a year our young midfielder Lewis Cook will never forget.

Having returned from injury in the early months of the year, Lewis went on to feature regularly in our first-team thereafter. At just 20 years of age, he’s still developing as both footballer and a person but what impresses me so greatly about Lewis is his maturity and determination to be the best he can be.

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