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Bergkamp - How Henry became the very best

Scoring goals always came naturally to Thierry Henry, but that wasn't all he offered on the pitch.

Speaking exclusively to our In Lockdown podcast, Bergkamp explained how our World Cup winner developed every aspect of his game to become the very best.

"You come across those sort of players, you just realise that they that have so much talent," Bergkamp said. "Maybe sometimes he was thinking, 'OK, to be the top scorer of the league it will take me 60% or 70% of my game, I want to do more.'

"He was that good at the time, he was developing his own game as well and part of that was assisting other players.