He was just a young boy — long before he became
one of Africa’s all-time football greats and racked up trophies in
Europe’s top competitions — when Abedi Ayew first heard people comparing
him with arguably the game’s best player — Brazil’s Edson Arantes do
Nascimento, also known as Pele.
Yet, there was just one problem for the young Abedi, who grew up in a
poor Ghanaian village and shared a home with his 18 siblings. He didn’t
know who Pele was.
“You imagine that we don’t have access to televisions, we don’t have lights in our villages; we were closed in the very small village so we didn’t have access to all these things,” he explains.
“So for me, playing behind our modest windows and any small places we would get, we tried to play football. And then you see people who are a little bit older than you saying, ‘oh Pele, he plays like Pele.read more at http://dagbonweb.com
“You imagine that we don’t have access to televisions, we don’t have lights in our villages; we were closed in the very small village so we didn’t have access to all these things,” he explains.
“So for me, playing behind our modest windows and any small places we would get, we tried to play football. And then you see people who are a little bit older than you saying, ‘oh Pele, he plays like Pele.read more at http://dagbonweb.com
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