Virgil van Dijk's son training with Liverpool as he looks to follow in footsteps

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At that particular moment I went to him he was with Wata [Wataru Endo] as well and I had a little tear in my eye."Then, I’m looking for my mum, my wife, my kids in the stands. He’s still very young, so I don’t know if he actually wants to do something with it, but he’s really keen to go and is having a great time.

Most of the time it’s like, 'Why did he give a yellow?' Or, 'You should have scored this one!'Virgil van Dijk's son has been training with Liverpool's under fives(Image: Getty)Van Dijk also opened up about how he deals with the setbacks on the pitch at home. I want to make sure I have my best each and every game."I need football because it’s something I really love to do.

When you have a difficult moment, you will maybe go home and think life is a lot more important than football, in terms of being healthy, being able to do what we do."I’m a father of four kids, so I’m going home and I can’t be the grumpy dad. They are looking up to me, and I’m not going to go home and shout at them because I had a bad training session, or we played a bad game and we lost."