
"You got this," the Adidas billboard declared pre-match, bearing the face of Jude Bellingham. For the midfielder, this always felt like destiny.
A Champions League final at Wembley, against the club he departed last summer, in his first season at Real Madrid, a season in which he catapulted himself into the Ballon d'Or conversation for the first time. At 20 years old, it probably won't be the last.