Man Utd's Sesko names football idol 'who did crazy things' and was physically similar

Benjamin Sesko tells of which footballer was his idol because of the "crazy things he did" and physically they are similar.

The Slovenian striker is now flying at Manchester United after a slow start and he has scored some crucial goals in recent matches.

His confidence has built up under Michael Carrick who believes he has a long future at Old Trafford.

And now, Sesko looking back at how he started out in football, says how his idol was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who he used to watch on YouTube videos.

"I started to watch him a lot because he was unbelievable, not just him but him most of the time, and then I tried to copy some things and that is how I came to love Ibrahimovic," said Sesko.

"I used to practice by myself, I had a little bit of schooling but other than that it was YouTube videos all the time and my own imagination.

"I started with Ibrahimovic because I was a big fan. I was tall, obviously not as tall as him then, but I was tall and I saw the crazy things that he did, the freedom, the things he was doing were unbelievable."

Sesko has also talked about the mentality needed to make it to the top in football.

“As the human beings we are, when you’re scoring always, the hunger to have after scoring is the hardest to do,” he said.

“That’s why I’m also saying to the kids, or when I go to Slovenia in the national team we always do the signatures and they ask me: ‘What are you doing? What would you give me as advice?’

“I always ask what kind of position they are playing and, if they are a striker, I say: ‘After you are scoring goals, have a hunger for it the next game, even more than you had it before.’

"Not being like: ‘I scored a goal so I’m relaxed now.’ Because that’s the hardest [thing].”

Sesko admitted that this is something he has to work on himself to have that hunger to always get another.

"That’s where the greatest players are made, always constantly [having] the hunger for goals – they score three, I want to score four," he said.

"This is the moment where I can improve, to have hunger when I score one, when I score the second, to score the third one, and I’m working on it of course.“