When Emmanuel Adebayor revealed that he had a knife to his throat in his living room in Monaco
The pathetic serial of the Pogba family has therefore landed on your news feed in recent days. Yesterday, the Paris prosecutor announced the opening of a judicial investigation against X “counts of extortion with a weapon in an organized gang, kidnapping or kidnapping with release before the seventh day in an organized gang to prepare or facilitate the commission of a crime or misdemeanor and participation in a criminal association with a view to designating a crime “.
World champion in 2018, the player of Juventus Turin had filed a complaint in July for an extortion attempt of several million euros, before his own younger brother, Mathias, attacked him in TikTok videos, promising “revelations” on the real personality of Paul Pogba.
From prevention to the ASM Academy
An episode that reminds us that, under the veneer of stardom, the career of a professional footballer is strewn with pitfalls. And without a well-made head, difficult to endure.
For several years, training centers have tackled the problem head-on. In Monaco, former French international and Inter Milan player Olivier Dacourt – now a consultant on Canal+ – notably intervened with young people from the Academy, in 2018, to lift taboos on the entourage of professional players.
To awaken the consciences of young people, in the front row having Kephren Thuram at the time, Dacourt had broadcast extracts from a series of meetings with great players entitled My dark side.
Among the testimonies, the edifying one of a former glory of AS Monaco, Emmanuel Adebayor. Believing that “a lot of African players take advantage” pressure from those around them, the Togolese had revealed an attack while he was playing in the Principality.
“I had to empty my account”
“As soon as you become a footballer, as soon as you become famous and earn some money, everything changes. My brother and my mother, they put the knife to my throat in Monaco, on my couch.”
Younger, when he was at the training center in Metz, Adebayor had even thought of ending his life.
“I was 16 years old. I was in my room and my older brother came to see me. I had to empty my account to give him. He called my mother and told her that I would not I didn’t give anything, that I had a big head, that I abused. My big sister didn’t believe me and scolded me. My mother did too. I called my big sister and said that I ‘in I had taken the medicine, he was next to me. It was one of my little brothers that I called who brought me to my senses “