In a recent interview with Sky news, when asked about the importance of positive male role models, Eze echoed Sir Gareth Southgate's lecture "I think that's something we're lacking massively," he said.

Eze went on: "People we can look up to, to actually show us what it means to be a man, what it means to strive for something, to become something, to make something of yourself, that's something we're definitely lacking now."  The 26-year-old suggested he wanted to see more from "other people in my position" and described "an obligation" to act as a role model for young boys.  "It's important," he said. "People are watching, people are looking at me."

Eze has taken action to provide young people from South London with aspirations for their future by setting up the Annual Eze Invitational tournament, now in it's third year.  Young players are bought to a professional club and given an opportunity to play together for free. 

Eze says it's more than football, he wants to given young people exposure "to opportunities outside of the world of football, outside what is the norm in south London...expose them to different sides of life, different opportunities, different ways of being.  That's the difference, once you're exposed to it, you know it's out there, then you have something to aim for, and that's what we're trying to do for these kids."

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