Celtic star Arne Engels is seeking more trophy joy to repay parents for all they have done
The Belgium international's family were present to watch Engels and his team-mates lift the William Hill Premiership trophy last weekend and he will have a contingent at Hampden for this afternoon's Scottish Gas Scottish Cup final against Aberdeen.
The 21-year-old is looking to complete a treble in his first season in Glasgow after making the move from Bundesliga outfit Augsburg in August.
The former Club Brugge youth player said: 'My mum and dad are coming and my agent is also coming and hopefully another two friends also, so it will be full of Engels.
'My mum and dad were also here for trophy day last weekend.
'It's always nice to have them here and to let them see the trophies and they also want to experience something special and see me lifting the trophies.
'It's hopefully an amazing feeling for them and I hope I can make them even prouder than they are.
'You always want to make them proud and I know every footballer knows how much their mum and dad did for them and especially for me.
'It was not always easy to leave me behind and to see me going to boarding school and stuff but I hope I can give them something back.
'I'm still young and I can hopefully still give them a lot back and hopefully can make them proud.
'If you're a schoolboy then you just want to enjoy the football and enjoy being with your friends at the football pitch and wanting to improve.
'When you get to a later stage then it's all about winning and all about getting trophies and getting better and better.
'That's where I am now. I want to win everything and that's why I came here.
'It's important for me to get those trophies and hopefully win another one.'
While Engels is experiencing major trophy wins for the first time this campaign, some of his Hoops team-mates are looking to further strengthen their already-historic legacy of silverware.
He added: 'It's amazing to see how they still want to win everything and still want to win every game.
'That's an amazing thing to see. You also want to learn from that and want to see how they behave in a week like this, how they are behaving and going up to a really big game.
'That's a real positive thing that I have here to see those two and all the other guys that also already took a lot of silverware home.
'You can see how they do that. Just to be calm and to do everything in the right mindset and in the right thing that you always do. Don't change something, just act like it's a normal game.
'I think that's a really important thing to not change something, to just see it as a normal game but it is not a normal game.
'Those are the things that you take with you.'
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