Sports News of Thursday, 20 September 2018
Source: ghanasoccernet.com
These footballers came from poor homes but now they are seen as role models.
Check the list below:
Stephen Appiah:
Former Black Stars Stephen Appiah was born in Chorkor, a fishing community in Accra. His parents were not rich but he didn't despair as he kept his focus.
At age 15, he was part of Ghana’s team that won the 1993 U-17 World Cup, after the tournament he had his breakthrough as he has played for clubs like, Juventus, Fenerbahce, Udinese, etc.
He is currently the Black Stars Technical Coordinator. He is regarded as one of the richest Ghanaian footballers in history.
He is worth about $80m, the Cameroonian star grew up in a very under very difficult conditions living with this family in a small home located in Douala.
He grew up sharing a bed with six of his siblings. His passion for football saw him make balls out of plastic materials he found and played with two of his brothers who are also footballers now.
After years of playing for an academy in Cameroon, he moved to France but had to leave to Spain where he joined the youth team of Real Madrid.
At the time, he earned about $200 a week, an amount that completely blew his family away. That was the beginning of the fattening of Eto’o’s bank account. Today he is one of the continent’s richest footballers.
Samuel Eto’o
Yaya Toure had his very own football boots at the age of 10, having spent years knocking a ball about without shoes in the streets of his native Cote d’Ivoire. “Boots were very expensive,” Toure told The Guardian in 2011.
Growing up in apartheid-era South Africa was a dangerous proposition for Steven Pienaar, who has described native Westbury – on the fringes of Johannesburg – as a cauldron of violence and strife.