Martin Odegaard takes a look back to the beginning of his career: "As I started so young, there were unrealistic expectations. It was never the plan to go there and get straight into the first team -- I knew it was going to take time.
"One of the reasons I went to Madrid was because I knew I could play for Castilla and still train with the first team. For any young player, if you go to a big team, it's difficult to play but in Madrid, I had the security that I'd get games for the second team and another reason was [Zinedine] Zidane was then coach of the second team.
"I never stressed about it. Of course, I wanted to play some more games and a few more in the first year, but that's football.
"In the beginning, there were a lot of positive things said and I tried to keep the focus as always on training and the next game and after a while, there was a lot of negativity. I tried to keep the same focus all the time because if you get affected by these kinds of things then it will affect your performance."
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