{"id":114503,"date":"2015-05-07T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=114503"},"modified":"2015-05-07T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:08:36","slug":"kojo-brown-ghanas-next-abedi-pele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/kojo-brown-ghanas-next-abedi-pele\/","title":{"rendered":"Kojo Brown – Ghana\u2019s next Abedi Pele"},"content":{"rendered":"
Naturally, he is a left-back. But on the pitch one can hardly tell he is a guardsman. He is a technically gifted player with skills and precision.<\/p>\n
Twenty-one-year-old Kojo Brown is a Ghanaian footballer who has spent most part of his life in Europe \u2013 Germany \u2013 and Australia. At a very tender age, the rearguard who can adapt as a midfielder and at the same time a striker, caught the eyes of lovers of the beautiful game.<\/p>\n
Having played for Sunshine Coast F.C and Richmond SC all in Australia, Brown is currently based in Germany training and schooling at the same time until the transfer season opens to consider one of his numerous suitors.<\/p>\n
We caught up with him after training where he talked about his ambition to play for Ghana although he has been approached by a couple of European teams to divert his national allegiance, why Ghana\u2019s Abedi Pele has had a lot of influence on him and why he feels Lionel Messi is better than Cristiano Ronaldo among others.<\/p>\n
BRIEFLY TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF?<\/strong><\/p>\n
I was born in Ghana. And left the country with my parents to Australia when I was about six years old. It was my father who got me into football, having taken me to a football match in Australia. My love for football developed after that. Since then I started playing football.<\/p>\n
Football runs through my blood. For me it\u2019s a natural thing. Everything about me is football.<\/p>\n
WHO ARE YOUR ROLE MODELS?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Growing up, I wouldn\u2019t say I had role models but I had people who I will say I aspired to be like \u2013 Thierry Henry and Abedi Pele. They were influential and always immense in games. Abedi for instance can dribbled almost the whole park even at a very young age.<\/p>\n
Those who have watched me on the pitch can easily identify my speed with Henry and the vision I always have is that of Abedi Pele.<\/p>\n