Chelsea's 'Own Jadon Sancho' Tipped To 'Follow His Heart' In Picking Teams

A Chelsea star has to decide on where he wants to play for on the international stage.

Callum Hudson-Odoi is caught in the middle of what appears to be some kind of a tug-of-war between England and Ghana. The former is where he was born, while the latter is where his parents’ are originally from.

Ghana has been persuading Hudson-Odoi to represent their squad, while England has snubbed him in the on-going Euro 2020.

Sending the Blues striker some piece of advice, Ghanaian star Edwin Gyasi tipped Hudson-Odoi to “follow his heart” and do his best not to be carried away by his situation in making his final decision.

"I will advise him [Hudson-Odoi] to follow his heart rather than bowing to public pressure at this critical moment in his career," Gyasi recently told Kasapa FM.

According to the FIFA's updated rules on eligibility, Hudson-Odoi will be allowed to make the switch to Ghana in November next year.

To this day, Hudson-Odoi has yet to commit to Ghana. But following his England snub in the Euro 2020 championship, the 20-year-old has hinted at the possibility of playing for the Black Stars.

“I think obviously when you’re young, you have the opportunity to play for England throughout all the years, from under 15 to under 16 all the way up,” Hudson-Odoi told Joy Sports last month. “When they obviously gave me the opportunity to come, I was in the country already. It’s something that I already had in my mind, set on already playing for England.”

"So it was the obvious thing, choosing Ghana or England, and at the end of the day, I said I always had the right people around me who always advise me – what’s right, what’s wrong,” he continued. “England came and I said 'Yeah, let me go and play for my country'. But I said Ghana is my home as well, so we’ll see, we’ll see. You’ll never know."

In club football, Hudson-Odoi has been one of Thomas Tuchel’s attacking options at Chelsea.

Naturally a forward but also functioning as a winger, some tagged Hudson-Odoi as the Blues’ “own Jadon Sancho.”

This past season, Hudson-Odoi bagged two impressive goals in seven UEFA Champions League matches but only managed to notch the same number of goals in 23 English Premier League games.

For Chelsea boss Tuchel, Hudson-Odoi just needs to figure out how to push himself to the limit.

“Callum [Hudson-Odoi] needs to understand how to use his potential,” Tuchel told Chelsea’s official website in May. “He needs to understand how to push himself to the absolute limit, and not be happy with 80, 85, 90, 95 per cent.”

“He simply cannot be happy with that in any single day,” the manager added. “He needs to learn and understand that and live up to that. Once he does this, he will make his way and leave his footprints.”