The story behind why Jude Bellingham wears the #.22 jersey!

The reason why the English star Jude Bellingham wears the no.22 shirt has been revealed. Mature beyond his years, the youngster learned his craft at Birmingham City - who then controversially retired his No.22 after he made just 44 appearances before sealing a £25 million move to Dortmund. But the reason he still wears the rather unusual squad number is due to Birmingham telling him from a young age that he did not need to limit himself to one role - and that he could be a No.4, (holding midfielder) No.8 (box-to-box midfielder) and No.10 (attacking midfielder) and play each position at the same level. Bellingham has been wearing the number 22 shirt since his time with Birmingham City and Dortmund, before moving to Real Madrid, and he currently wears it with the England national team. Bellingham's shirt number aroused the interest of fans. Bellingham has worn 22 since he grew up in Birmingham City, and the story behind his choice of the unique number begins from his first days in Birmingham City. Add those digits together and you get 22, Bellingham's preferred number. "I actually remember his first session as a seven-year-old," Birmingham's head of development Mike Dodds said. "I thought, 'Yeah he's alright, not too bad'. He didn't stand out. It probably wasn't until he got to 13 that you started to go, 'This boy is very good.'"He would have been about 13 or 14 and like most boys that age, they want to be a No 10. "And I remember, we sat down with him and we said, 'We think you're doing yourself a disservice, we think you can do all of it. "So we came up with, 'we think you can be a 22'. "His eyes lit up and we knew had hooked him from then on in! "We said we thought he could be a holding midfielder, or a four. We thought he could be a box-to-box, which is an eight. And we thought he could be a scorer and a creator, so a 10. "And from the age of 13 onwards he has held on to that all the way through and you can see that in his game. The young star received the number 5 in his new club, Real Madrid, after joining the Merengue in the summer for a record amount of 103 million euros. Antonio Rudiger already had the number 22 in the Spanish capital, so the English midfielder decided to choose the legendary number 5 shirt of Zinedine Zidane.