Such wealth has enabled the 22-year-old to buy his family a \u00a33million, six-bed gated house in the picturesque Cheshire village of Prestbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On top of that, earlier this year, he and his partner Rebecca Cooke, 21, moved down the road into their own \u00a32.85million mansion, along with his son also called Ronnie, three, and their one-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a far cry from those early days when Foden was a football-mad boy kicking his ball in the street where he lived in Edgeley with his parents, Phil Sr and Claire, and older brother Callum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed his growing fortune has also changed the life of his paternal grandmother Mary, enabling him to buy the 61-year-old a \u00a3200,000 bay-fronted house just up the road from where he grew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was the one who first gave him the nickname \u2018Ronnie\u2019, calling him \u2018Ronnie Roundhead\u2019 due to the shape of his head. And the death of her partner, Foden\u2019s grandfather, Walter at the age of 47 inspired his Man City squad number. Family clearly means a lot to Foden, who also has four younger siblings, and he remains proud of his Stockport roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has also spoken of feeling the \u2018pressure\u2019 to use his earnings to repay his parents for their support. In an interview with last month\u2019s Esquire magazine, Foden encapsulated the reasons for his success on and off the pitch, saying: \u2018I wanted to be able to look after my family.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phil Snr, 43 \u2013 ironically a Manchester United fan \u2013 now manages his son\u2019s career, while his mother, also 43, is credited with keeping the young superstar\u2019s feet on the ground. Last year she described how he was \u2018the cheapest kid ever\u2019, telling The Daily Telegraph his childhood was: \u2018No games, no toys, nothing, just a football.\u2019 Back in Edgeley he would incessantly practise from the moment he learnt how to walk, whether in the living room, the back garden, or the car park a few doors from his family home opposite a bookmaker\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scouted by Man City as a youngster, he worked his way through their academy and made his debut in 2017, aged 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He now has 31 goals in 111 Premier League appearances for the club. And over the next fortnight, he hopes to add to his tally of 20 senior England caps and three goals. Despite his superstar profile, Foden and Miss Cooke remain a familiar sight in and around Edgeley, returning regularly to visit family and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018He\u2019s never Phil Foden to us, he\u2019s always \u201cRonnie\u201d,\u2019 said Colette Haworth, 28, landlady of the Royal Oak pub. \u2018You\u2019ll often see him pushing a pram along the precinct, or carrying a takeaway and a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People around here are very proud of how he\u2019s stayed so close to his roots.\u2019 Local shopkeeper Harish Panchani, 54, said: \u2018He still comes into the shop with his girlfriend, he\u2019s really down-to-earth \u2013 he takes his kids to the park over the road, and goes fishing in the local lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018How many top footballers can you say that about?\u2019 Mr Panchani added: \u2018The whole family are just decent people, and I\u2019m sure the way he\u2019s still so rooted in the community is a big part of how he\u2019s handled becoming so famous.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n His former coach Steve Eyre said: \u2018I think he\u2019s on course to one day being the best player in the world.\u2019 Along with football and family, the pastime of fishing is a third recurring theme in Foden\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He missed the City players\u2019 2018 Premier League title celebrations because he had a pre-planned fishing trip with his father. \u2018It\u2019s good for clearing your head after you\u2019ve had a bad game,\u2019 he explained. These days, the demands of football and fatherhood leave him little time for the hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nevertheless Foden remains loyal to angling friends such as Paul Adrian, who received a call from Foden after his sensational performance against Wales on Tuesday. \u2018He was on Cloud Nine,\u2019 said Mr Adrian, 50, from his tackle shop in Droylsden, Manchester. \u2018He was just really upbeat, excited, because obviously it was his first World Cup goal.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow, when he faces Senegal in the first knock-out round in Qatar, the eyes of the world will be on that lad from Stockport. 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