{"id":158777,"date":"2024-03-05T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/05\/academies-rejected-me-and-said-i-wasnt-good-enough-antoine-semenyo\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T10:32:59","slug":"academies-rejected-me-and-said-i-wasnt-good-enough-antoine-semenyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/05\/academies-rejected-me-and-said-i-wasnt-good-enough-antoine-semenyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Academies rejected me and said I wasn\u2019t good enough \u2013 Antoine Semenyo \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana forward Antoine Semenyo has revealed that he was rejected by many academies that told him he was not good enough to be admitted to their academies.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old got his breakthrough in football at an unlikely SGS College, where he was signed by Bristol City.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars midfielder has now opened up about his difficult football career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to quite a few clubs and was told the same thing that I wasn\u2019t good enough. It\u2019s tough as a kid hearing that,\u201d Semenyo told Sky Sports having been playing Sunday League for local side Kingfisher amid unsuccessful trials with the likes of Arsenal, Tottenham and Millwall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalace hit me hard the most because I was there for so long. My trial got extended and I thought I was going to be signed \u2013 and it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember getting into the car crying and saying to my dad, \u2018Why does this keep happening?\u2019. I stopped playing football for a year after that. I didn\u2019t play any sports; I put on a lot of weight. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be here, but God works in mysterious ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>footballghana.com<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana forward Antoine Semenyo has revealed that he was rejected by many academies that told him he was not good enough to be admitted to their academies. The 24-year-old got his breakthrough in football at an unlikely SGS College, where he was signed by Bristol City. The Black Stars midfielder has now opened up about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Academies rejected me and said I wasn\u2019t good enough \u2013 Antoine Semenyo \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/05\/academies-rejected-me-and-said-i-wasnt-good-enough-antoine-semenyo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Academies rejected me and said I wasn\u2019t good enough \u2013 Antoine Semenyo \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghana forward Antoine Semenyo has revealed that he was rejected by many academies that told him he was not good enough to be admitted to their academies. 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