{"id":78144,"date":"2023-06-22T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/22\/i-had-no-passion-to-play-football-while-growing-up\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:06:02","slug":"i-had-no-passion-to-play-football-while-growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/22\/i-had-no-passion-to-play-football-while-growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"I had no passion to play football while growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2022-11-28-152736-696x460.png\"   alt=\"Jordan Ayew\" title=\"Jordan Ayew\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Ayew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana and Crystal Palace\u00a0striker, Jordan Ayew, has revealed that he\u00a0didn\u2019t really want to become a professional footballer while growing up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview, Jordan said\u00a0he preferred to play with his friends and only began to take football seriously when he was 10 years old.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, despite coming from a family association with generations of footballers, his parents never forced him to play football.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents always told us we should do whatever makes us happy, and they will be behind us,\u201d\u00a0Ayew said, as quoted by Crystal Palace\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will tell us the truth, be honest with us and make sure we grow well. They just wanted us to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u00a0\u201cI was playing football but I didn\u2019t really want to play competitively in my youth. I was always playing with my friends from our area and against other areas, and that was fine by me. I just wanted to be with my friends after school, I didn\u2019t want to go to practice. Just to live a normal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I got to a certain age when I was 10 where I joined an Under-12s team in my area, and I think that\u2019s where the real love for the game started for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Ayew featured in Black Stars\u2019 matchday five games against Madagascar in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), a game that ended goalless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"H4l1d0Goc6s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Mpensenpensemu on Adom TV (22-06-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4l1d0Goc6s?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Ayew Ghana and Crystal Palace\u00a0striker, Jordan Ayew, has revealed that he\u00a0didn\u2019t really want to become a professional footballer while growing up. 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