Breaching a contract and the forgotten boy from Ghana

This article is about a boy who is born in Ghana. He had two dreams, become a doctor and a professional soccer player.

Jorien van den Herik was the president of Feyenoord when he saw the kid playing a excellent game. It was the summer of 2001, Asante was 12 years old. The boy, Samuel Asante, was the biggest talent of the soccer school.

A few years later Asante signed a four year contract in Rotterdam. Everything was going very well for Asante, he had excellent results at school and everybody was sure that Asante would have a big future in “De Kuip”.

But at one day he was gone. Nobody knew where he was, until somebody found him in America. Asante was smuggled with a false passport into America. Feyenoord demanded 500.000 dollar compensation at the University. This was for stimulating to breach a contract.

The journalist couldn’t find any information about him for several months. He gave it up until Chelsea was punished by the FIFA for the stimulating to breach a contract No he is still playing soccer in America. On the site of his nowadays (small) soccer team, Des Moines Menace, can you read that Asante is studying biology when he doesn’t play soccer.

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Stéphanie Cambier