{"id":427915,"date":"2017-10-12T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/12\/godfred-donsah-reveals-how-his-fathers-stowaway-motivated-him\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:30:34","slug":"godfred-donsah-reveals-how-his-fathers-stowaway-motivated-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/12\/godfred-donsah-reveals-how-his-fathers-stowaway-motivated-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Godfred Donsah reveals how his father\u2019s stowaway motivated him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 12 October 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>footballmadeinghana.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-10-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/95080245.295.jpg\" alt=\"DonsahactionBolo\" title=\"DonsahactionBolo\" width=\"295\" height=\"241\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Godfred Donsah said his father\u2019s deadly voyage to Italy by sea inspired him<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507800634_994_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Bologna enforcer Godfred Donsah has described how his father\u2019s deadly voyage to Italy by sea inspired him.<\/p>\n<p>According to Donsah, he came to Italy and only managed to see his father again after eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Now 21, the Ghanaian has played at Palermo, Verona, Cagliari and Bologna, but the story began with his father Twaku Tachie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I weren\u2019t a football player, I\u2019d be working in the cacao plantations, just like my parents did,\u201d Donsah told Che Tempo Che Fa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank God, who gave me the opportunity to be here. I grew up in Ghana in absolute poverty, at least until the age of 15, when I tried to make a career for myself as a football player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my father who decided he would come to Italy to work and send money home and to do it he crossed the desert. During the journey, someone died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe managed to get on to a boat and he told me that one of his friends complained about the conditions, so he was thrown overboard. When he got to Lampedusa, he started work picking vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By sending money home for Godfred, his mother and three sisters, it gave the young player the opportunity to follow his dream and was spotted by Palermo talent scouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to Como and Verona, where thanks to Andrea Mandorlini I made my debut for the senior squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI managed to see my father again eight years later. We didn\u2019t sleep that night. 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