Ghana’s most prolific player of all time Asamoah Gyan has shared his grass-to-grace story in a new interview with Berla Mundi on TV3.
Sharing his success story, Gyan said his parents were neither poor too nor rich and although he had his own fair of struggles while growing up, his parents made sure he lacked nothing.
He also revealed he and Dancehall star Shatta Wale were schoolmates. He spoke about he used to help his dad sell maize at the Kaneshie Market and how their humble background motivated him to go for the ultimate in life.
“I was with Charles Mensah [Shatta Wale] at Seven Great and they opened a new one, the one at Dansoman, so that was where Shatta went. The rich people went there,” Gyan told Berla Mundi on the Day Show.
He added;
Nah, my parents did well to cater for my education, we were not that rich. I won’t be a hypocrite to motivate people that we were poor and they try to motivate people. When you talk about poor people, they are those in the village who don’t have but my parents were able to cater for me. My mother was a headmistress and my father was a businessman, he sold maize at the Kaneshie market.”
He further stated: “From school, I used to go sit down at the Kaneshie market and sell. Sometimes when I’m around that place driving when I get down people will think Asamoah Gyan came from the sky but they didn’t know I was there selling maize.
“I didn’t sell the maize but my dad goes to Nkoranza and they bring them in a sack to sell to the Kenkey sellers. Sometimes we don’t use the Kaneshie footbridge, we jump the fence to pick a car to Mallam but people don’t believe it.”
Source – Tru News Report
