Nationality

Legendary footballer Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed that a language barrier killed his interest in playing for Ghana at the beginning of his career. The former Tottenham Hotspur attacker noted that he was invited to join one of the junior national teams after excelling in interschool games. However, the former Arsenal striker indicated that when he reported to camp, most of the players were interacting in local languages, which made him unhappy in camp as he could not communicate with his colleagues. "In interschool competitions, I was captain. We then played inter-district, and I was captain again. We played inter-region, and…