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at school. we shouldn't be given a special status but be completely normal. 11 teenagers 11 stories hey i'm jewish and so. german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w. in the 1st. book is good. talking. point is. becoming a pro footballer in europe with john almost childhood dream but he has made it thousands of young people come here from africa every. with the same dream. you

have like 6000 kids coming from i've got. out of this 6000 kids i can tell you maybe 4 or 5 would make it what a more diverse. names there are no more than my kin and. i am a father of 2. and i also have a husband to a lovely wife and also a philanthropist. i have a fondness from back home in kenya where i grew up where i try to help the kids to get what you need to give them hope. but they live in. so what's it like to be one of the few african footballers who make it from europe john amal is one of 2006 africans currently playing abroad the kenyan international left his home in 2007 but he hasn't forgotten where he came from. he has the

same urge to give something back to the community as african superstars like didier drogba. summer eto. and sanyo money who became role models for every young african football. it was never easy for johanna the place he grew up in still haunts him today. than dora is an eastern suburb of nairobi it's known for being the biggest dump site in kenya. and pretty difficult place i live pretty close to the docks a walking distance. so it was raining of course i understand she gets better but you cannot stand. unfortunately you have poverty.

lot of fun is nice and less than a dollar right and that means education so the only thing worse would more. because i stuck to football. has been living in europe since 2007. his 2 kids were born here in belgium and they called the country home. just one example of how much has changed since you arrived in europe. from all those turned out for 5 clubs in belgium most recently spent 4 years with the small of the to bruges based 1st division clubs. as a kid in my didn't i would be a place like this. now. you can come from training and just pick up. whatever you choose you know and going there you could not we played with the

beginning one where no shoes even the boys you know. the boys the. good boys at home with me. you know and it was just fun just to distract us from everything that's going on around you it was. an escape. all the trash is from all over on it all because not everyone thought. you know. we. just go next to me so we used plastic bags for the garbage to make. my friends you know stopping for trying to go into the dump good things so then. yes it became

a. part of our lives. there's a saying in kenya nothing good comes from dunder. what worries johanna is that kids like alice sundra are still facing the same problems a bit he faced as a youngster 20 years ago. my son he had nothing in life is hard in the ghetto sometimes you go without food you get used to it sometimes you watch somebody get mugged they just want to feed their families therefore life here is very hard many have left football for crime we have buried a lot of them and life goes on. johanna's parents don't live in dan door anymore but his help they were able to move to

wealthier safer parts of nairobi. his parents were initially skeptical that football could provide a stable career when he was 13 his mother stopped him from going to norway for trials 2 years later he went and gave the money he earned to his mom. and when he brought me the money i realized that even football can be beneficial. his father had retired but i was still cutting people's here for money. by this time johanna had already entered the football academy of a belgian agent in kenya and aged 17 he signed his 1st contract in europe. so we're never. we're never. given.

in 2017 johannah decided to do something for his community he set up his own foundation just 300 yards away from the dump site he established a soccer academy. asunder and teddy arm rolled them to kids who dream of following in johanna's footsteps and becoming professional footballers. i would want to play in the english premier league league or all syria as long as i'm able to help the people back in the ghetto and get them out of the state they're in. alice sandra and 6 other kids have a scholarship from the johanna foundation this is where they go to hone their skills. compared to europe there are not enough quality academies here for players

in the decisive age bracket between 12 and 16. our main objective is level up. in kenya. and locally if we're going to have a very competitive league not only your success we're going to go to. so these young kids what to do they can be brought here in kenya. andrew juma is an example of a former academy player who made it in the kenyan premier league he pushes the boys to focus on soccer and education as not all of them will become pro football is. their god i'm mad my mentality to see football as our. career when i was a kid. around a $1000.00 approximately $1000.00. doesn't follow now because i can't even pay my sister's school fees and then it was a teen mom up my mama and i can't even buy it was when i was in doubt hardly

some people bought me boots so now i can do the same. it's a tough task to change the kids' perspective and make them see the opportunities available in africa as most of them would always dream of making it in europe. my advice now and they specialize now because i have a lot a lot of kids who look up in the phone later. to build the talked about because if we do it there they have a big. part of those kids who will make it and they're living you know and it's easier there than here but the difficulty is that when they see you here they think you have what you have there and waiting.

for african players coming it's really really important that they get some help in order to integrate into society. they were here they cannot confront you direct especially in belgium. you remove something wrong something they don't like they want to live in africa. they don't like something they tell you and then you. very . fortunately johannah got plenty of advice from older african players helping him get used to the european mentality. he was once all. a gets to watch him do what's he allowed. to see. throughout his career john amato has never lost his love for the beautiful game. but he has had to make sacrifices to state football in january 2021 he signed

a contract in turkey's top division. of the world for my new home. as a room is in eastern anatolia 4000 kilometers away from his family and brooch. from a professional point of view moving was a good decision. in the new office more maybe it's a tactic or you know. it's business and all these. it's more physical more more more direct work and i think that's what it's for for. if as a room stays in the top flight johannah will stay in turkey and his family will join him in the summer. a new chapter of his life as an african football in europe . but the time to return home is closer.

like other footballers worldwide who donate at least one percent of their earnings johannah joined the common goal initiative to change things for the better however i want to me i don't want to be having a fun addition to what i want to grow up in a while but all of these things are being i think at the core leckie of love from work labs you know having a. good structure for the kids. i want to live life with my farm and just live like more people. but now it's. incredibly hard that i am me of course it's. nice to have a lot of work to get. after . doing. the only.

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