Pione Sisto: Uganda-born Dane who worked harder than his team-mates

The Denmark forward has benefited from his parents’ belief in working hard but still having fun and is now a starter at Celta Vigo and for the national team

This article is part of the Guardian’s 2018 World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 32 countries who have qualified for Russia. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 14 June.

In 2014, when Glen Riddersholm was a youth coach at FC Midtjylland, there was this player with an insatiable desire to improve. “It is very rare, even in an elite environment, that you find someone with as much determination as Pione Sisto,” Riddersholm told Jyllands-Posten back then. “Pione is just unique in the way that he takes himself and his talent very seriously.”

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