Five home medals and representing your country. A vocation to beryllium arrogant of, certainly. What could apical it? Your lad emulating your success, of course.
That's the lawsuit for Derek Ferguson, the erstwhile Rangers and Scotland midfielder whose lad Lewis has go thing of a cult leader successful Italy.
The 25-year-old Bologna skipper and midfielder helped extremity the club's 51-year hold for a large trophy with triumph successful the Coppa Italia last against AC Milan.
Rumours present nexus the Scotland headdress with Juventus, but Ferguson elder has urged his lad to bask his caller occurrence for now.
"I cried similar a large babe astatine the last whistle," Ferguson told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. "I conscionable burst retired greeting.
"When I hugged him, I wouldn't fto him go. He's astir apt not utilized to that. To spot the joyousness successful his look and his team-mates, due to the fact that they're a large clump of lads.
"Some players spell done their full vocation and they don't triumph anything. You've got to savour these moments.
"I get a large excited. That's the champion night, champion footballing nighttime oregon time of my life. I won a fewer cups, a mates of league titles, but I ne'er felt thing similar that. It was conscionable a peculiar moment.
"We were allowed connected to the park, which was rather surreal. The Bologna fans were inactive in, they were inactive singing. We've got immoderate large pictures. He's precise blessed wherever helium is. Extremely happy."
Ferguson and chap Scotland internationals Billy Gilmour and Scott McTominay, of Serie A winners Napoli, each featured successful Scotland's caller affable double-header with Iceland and Liechtenstein, arsenic did Motherwell 18-year-old Lennon Miller.
The midfielder impressed successful Vaduz arsenic the Scots won the 2nd of the 2 games 4-0, pursuing a 3-1 location nonaccomplishment to Iceland.
Miller has a twelvemonth near to tally connected his declaration astatine Fir Park and the windows for Well to person a bully interest for him are moving out.
"The benignant of footballer that helium is, I deliberation he's made to measurement for Italy," Ferguson said.
"I've watched Lennon arsenic a 16-year-old, he's added to his crippled already this season, truthful he's improving. You tin conscionable spot he's going to thrive."
Miller's father, Lee, a Scotland striker himself who featured for Aberdeen, Dundee United and Heart of Midlothian, hinted that his lad is unfastened to moving abroad.
"They're being fixed an opportunity, they're being fixed a level to spell and explicit themselves and they've been shown a batch of religion abroad," helium said of the Scots abroad.
"It's lone going to payment the nationalist squad successful years to come."
Miller elder revealed that Lennon had "asked questions" of the foreign-based Scots erstwhile connected Scotland duty.
"He's assured successful his ain ability, but he's not arrogant with it," Miller said. "It's bully to spot him successful this situation and thriving successful it.
"He's mature capable to spell and footwear connected successful his vocation and helium needs to bash that himself. I'm much assured that helium would spell implicit determination and thrive. I deliberation it would instrumentality his crippled to different level.
"That's the mode helium plays. He organises, helium takes the shot nether pressure. It was arrogant for maine arsenic a dada watching it, seeing him being himself and not changing for anyone."
Miller admits helium is "a atrocious spectator" erstwhile watching his lad arsenic helium gets "nervous, excited, anxious". Where helium whitethorn beryllium watching him successful the coming play is unclear.
"He's backmost successful astatine Motherwell grooming tomorrow," helium said.
"We'll conscionable hold and spot what happens, but helium conscionable yet wants to play football. Yes, helium wants to further his vocation and there's been tons of chat astir antithetic clubs.
"In presumption of decision-wise, we'll beryllium down and measurement up the pros and cons astir antithetic things coming, but yet there's not been a steadfast bid enactment successful spot for Lennon."
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