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| Out of love- Adebayor has sacked his mother from his house |
EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR'S world was thrown into further turmoil yesterday when a radio station in Ghana reported his mother was at the Ghana-Togo border selling cheap junk in order to make ends meet.
The Tottenham striker had hoped the international
break would give him a chance to escape from the furore surrounding his attack
on the club's own fans for being too negative.
But yesterday he appeared to get himself in a radio
row with his closest family in which he accused his sister and mother of
"doing juju on me". Juju is a West African term for witchcraft.
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| Adebayor is the richest and most famous footballer in Togo |
His elder sister Maggie started the row when she told
Peace FM in Accra that Adebayor had abandoned his family.
"As at now, our mother is selling polythene bags,
padlocks and other things on the Ghana-Togo border," she said. "Our
mother has not seen him for more than a year and he rejects her calls any time.
"Our mother is not calling him for his money, she
just wants to see him because she loves him very much."
Adebayor
had claimed that his own mother and relatives have been plotting 'juju'
(witchcraft) against him aimed at bringing his career to a premature end.
"At
the airport my mum said, 'Go to France and you can change the way this family
lives.' She knew that if I succeeded in football we could have a better life
and finally get out of poverty. At 15 I wasn’t just playing for my own glory, I
was playing for the sake of my family," Emmanuel Adebayor once told the
Daily Mail in an interview back in 2009.
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| Adebayor had claimed that his own mother and relatives have been plotting 'juju' (witchcraft) against him |
It's
all a different story nowadays as a now matured and wealthy Sheyi Adebayor has
strongly defended his decision to stay away from his family by accusing his
mother of using witchcraft to attack him, the mother he once hailed as the best
in the world and went with to receive the Africa footballer of the year 2008
award in Lagos.
The
now overly rich Togo captain apparently sent his mother packing from his house
over a year ago and has not set eyes or spoken with her since.
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| Emmanuel Adebayor went with his mother to receive the Africa footballer of the year 2008 award in Lagos |
However the £101,000-a-week star has refuted
suggestions he has decided to abandon his own mother.
Adebayor, speaking to Peace FM, said: 'I never sacked
my mum from the house. She decided to leave the house.
'How am I going to be in touch with my mum if my mum
is the one telling everyone that my work will not go forward, so I will just be
on my side and do my thing.
'They should stop talking, they should stop doing Juju
on me, they should leave me alone.
'I bought a $1.2m house in East Legon for the one
talking and calling herself my sister. Can you imagine that sister went to rent
the house without my knowledge?'
It remains unclear who he was directing his request
for people to 'stop doing Juju on him' at.
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| Adebayor says he never sacked his mum from house |
Last year, following the death of his elder brother Peter,
he took care of his little boy, Junior, describing him as "like a son to
me".
This season he has failed to find the form he showed under
previous manager Tim Sherwood and is being linked with a move to Galatasaray in
January. Tottenham were unable to comment on the authenticity of the reported
exchange but did confirm that Adebayor is not due back from international duty.
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| Premier League star Adebayor has scored two goals in 12 games for Tottenham so far this season |
BACKGROUND
Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor; born 26 February 1984 is a Togolese footballer
who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Togo
national team. He was born in Lomé to parents of Yoruba ethnicity of western
Nigeria. Adebayor previously played for Metz, Monaco, Arsenal, Real Madrid and
Manchester City. He was voted African Footballer of the Year for 2008.
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