Alexandre Lacazette reveals he wanted to be a goalkeeper, but

He plays upfront for Arsenal and France, and so the whole football thing worked out alright for Alexandre Lacazette in the end.
But if he’d have had it the way he wanted, then things could have worked out very differently.

Because the forward – who has been on fire for Arsenal ever since joining the club from Lyon, and who is in the French squad for this week’s World Cup qualifiers against Bulgaria and Belarus – he revealed he wanted to have a career of stopping the ball going into the net, rather than putting it in there himself.
Then his mum stepped in.
“I did like playing in goal when I was young but my mum wasn’t very keen as she thought being a goalie was too dangerous,” he said when on France duty.
“She said that I either played as a forward or not at all.”
The young Lacazette ended up taking that advice to heart and quickly became very good at playing as a forward, even if his prowess often made him feel sorry for the teams facing him.
“Sometimes I was embarrassed for the opposition if there was a huge goal difference between the two teams but that didn’t happen all the time,” he said.
“I suppose temperament wise, I was quite reserved. I still am. I just liked playing football with my friends.
“If we lost, of course I was sad. I used to cry at the slightest negative thing. Don’t worry, it’s changed now!”