Left boot missing one week and right boot the next, Finney's twinkling feet developed an adhesive technique where the ball was not so much under his control but at his command.Finney became an England legend who could play anywhere across the front five because he was equally at home with the ball on either foot.Since the days when FIFA players wore hobnail boots instead of carpet slippers, genuine ambidextrous players surprisingly remain a rare species - but Adam Lallana is off the FIFA World Cup this summeras the nearest thing we have to a mini-Finney. Lallana does not know his best position. And he does not know whether he is truly left or right-footed.But the Southampton captain has become an outstanding (futcoins2sale) standard-bearer for the Saints' conveyor belt of home-grown talent.He remains grateful for the enlightened coaching he received at the Saints'academy from Georges Prost, a French guru who arrived from Marseille with a brief to instil technical quality in the club's enviable crop of youngsters. “That was where the success began with Southampton producing this generation of young players,” said Lallana. “We used to do technical sessions, day in day out. But always on your left and always on your right.“Looking back, I feel those two or three years of doing my scholarship is where I developed massively into not thinking about what foot you use and it became second nature. It's a good quality to have.” Action Images It is now eight years since Lallana made his debut for Southampton - just four months after they had introduced a willowy kid from Wales called Gareth Bale into their first FIFA 15 ultimate team.Bale was last spotted running Barcelona ragged down the touchline, nipping out to buy a hot dog and coming back to complete a sensational solo FIFA goal in the Spanish Cup finalto confirm his status as the world's most expensive player. Lallana has taken an alternative scenic route to the top, learning his trade among the muck and nettles of League One, and skipping through thankless assignments at outposts in the Championship, on his way to an England call-up last autumn.He said: “It has been a gradual process, and I think I have benefited from the route I have taken. I have played on cold, wet nights at the end of the earth in midweek, and it is character-building stuff, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.“It's all part of the learning process, but if there are people who are trying to whack you and smash you off the ball, it probably means you are doing something right.“The same applies in the Premier League - if you get too cocky, you will get hit up in the air.“It teaches you not to get ahead of yourself, not to take anything for granted. I had a great time getting promoted twice in two years, but I never forget how special it is to be playing in the Premier League.