Yerry won’t play cat and mouse, Eden

YERRY MINA will make his full debut for his new club against an unbeaten Chelsea side spearheaded by Eden Hazard.

He will run out at a venue where

Everton have not won in 29 attempts, stretching back to 1994. The mission might be described as ‘tough’.

But whenever that word is used, Mina only has to think back to his escape from pocvoenrtteyxtin. Colombia to put everything into

Mina, who was named by his mother after the mouse in Tom and Jerry, was brought up in Gauchene, a place where the average monthly income is 100 dollars a month per family. Life is genuinely tough.

The man recruited by

Everton boss

Marco Silva

(right) after some heroic

World Cup exploits for

Colombia, said:

“If I told you everything about my childhood, we would be here all day.

“There were lots of difficulties for me at the start, but it was always the aim of mine to be a footballer and I had a strong conviction to do it.

“Gauchene is quite difficult and a hard place to get out of.

“Yes, I experienced some very tough moments in my home town but you draw on those experiences.

“It makes you tough but there is not a day that goes by when I don’t look back and remember what it was like and every game I go into, I reflect on that past. It makes me all the more determined to succeed.”

Mina has been kept waiting but gets his big chance tomorrow because on-loan Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma is not available to tackle his parent club.

Some might say that avoiding an examination at the feet of Hazard would not be the worst game to duck.

But Mina said: “There is a saying we have in Colombia: Nobody takes my mum’s food away from me!

“It means we fight to the death and defend everything we can. Or you defend the shirt to the end. Try and get it off me!”