{"id":166412,"date":"2024-03-28T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/28\/football-has-been-my-life-since-age-9-thomas-partey\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:05:10","slug":"football-has-been-my-life-since-age-9-thomas-partey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/28\/football-has-been-my-life-since-age-9-thomas-partey\/","title":{"rendered":"Football has been my life since age 9 \u2013 Thomas Partey \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghana midfielder,\u00a0Thomas Partey\u00a0has opened up about his football journey from his first club to his current club, Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media team of the English Premier League club, the experienced midfielder said his first team was called Krobo Youth.<\/p>\n<p>He said since joining the team at the age of 9, football has been part of his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I grew up with my father playing football. So I always had a football around the home when I was young. It was the same at school with my friends there, everywhere we went I just wanted to play football. Then when I joined my first side at the age of nine, it was my life from then on. Every day I was playing football, we didn\u2019t have any other sports we did \u2013 always football,\u201d\u00a0Thomas Partey\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder has been one of the best in his position in Europe in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>He spent years at Atletico Madrid where he made a name for himself before sealing a big move to Arsenal in 2020.<\/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 midfielder,\u00a0Thomas Partey\u00a0has opened up about his football journey from his first club to his current club, Arsenal. 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