Portugal: A graduate of Sporting Lisbon academy and comfortably bilingual, he and his five siblings grew up in Portugal before eventually work and study brought them back to England, according to The Independent. Ted Croker , Dier grandfather, with Dave Sexton, Terry Venables and Bert Millichip It is easy to forget that Dier is, as he points out himself, new to the Premier League. His grandson, 21 and in his first season at Tottenham Hotspur, shares his grandfather passion for football but is a modern child of the European Union. He had a brief loan spell at Everton in their Under-18s in 2011 but otherwise the English boy who lived in Portugal from the age of seven is learning how to play the pro game here for the first time. Maybe it is unlucky because I am English people presume I should be used to it. People forget it my first season in English football and I am like any other foreigner coming here, he says.
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