Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg has opened up about his experience of caring for his late father, who passed away from cancer in 2014.
Spotted young by Bayern Munich, the Danish star moved away from home to Germany in 2012 in pursuit of fruitful career in football, but his life changed dramatically once his father Christian was diagnosed with cancer.
After Christian moved to Germany to be with his son and undergo chemotherapy, Hojbjerg became a carer aged just 17 and was forced to juggle it with his budding youth career.
'My father would always take care of me, then suddenly I had to take care of him,' he told BBC Football Focus.