TURIN, Aug. 18, 2012 - E 'quickly became the darling of the fans, who have granted credit on confidence as he did in four seasons at Udinese and extraordinary game, dressed up with a great goal, the official debut with the new shirt in the Super Cup against Napoli, Kwadwo Asamoah deserves it all. Coupled to a foot race (left) from attacking midfielder, can play the Ghanaian top up or down in a midfield diamond, although it gives you the best as a left midfield, a role that ensures quantity and quality and where he sees the Count at Juventus, where twenty-three of Accra is the place to gamble landed with Marchisio, Vidal and Giaccherini. Age, dynamics, technique, knowledge of our football do the "Asa" a very true to a team capable of ensuring oxygen and phosphorus for the next 10 years. In any team, including a great like Juve. Who doubts that the young man could get lost in the leap from Udine in Turin (already tried it, bank grenades on his arrival in Italy in 2008), try talking asentirlo: Asamoahfa tranquility is its strength. Beginning with the use of language: unlike many foreign colleagues, does not purport to rely solely on their own. It is expressed in our: in an elementary way, and direct maefficace. Confident and impervious to everything. Stupidity of others included.
Kwadwo: means something?
«Monday. In Ghana, it gives the child the name of the weekday he was born. So, my three siblings are Yaw, Thursday, Kwaku, Wednesday, and again Yaw. And my sister Afia, Friday. Many also have an English name. My son, for example, call Jason Kwami, because he was born on Saturday. He has 2 months. "
What dreams for him?
"What becomes a great player, stronger than me."
His wife's name is Bertha: Italian?
"No, Ghana. We met in our country, we've been together for 4-5 years. I liked when I saw it. I also like it because like me, does not go out much. Or go to school, or was at home with his mother. A serious player needs to have beside the right woman. After training can not come home and find a person that has problems. Berta has studied economics, came to stay with me after graduation. "
She, however, has studied?
"Visual Arts. I like to draw. If you put me in front of the bottle in 5 minutes I'll make it equal. Merit of my teacher at school: there was placing an object in front of the eyes and left him for days, until he had played the same. "
Continues to draw?
"I have no time. Actually, I was already very small. I started early with the ball, at first just for the fun, yet every day someone is presented to my father to ask him to let me go aggregarmi for his team. But he waited to give me leave: we were not so poor. "
What job does your father do?
"We dealt with electronically. Now it has stopped because they are elderly. A week ago he completed 69 years. I called and said: "My son, tomorrow is my birthday, what do you do for me?". You know, in Ghana is not easy to live so long. He manages a few. Just go and see him, I prepared a surprise for him: a new home. "
That where he lived as a child, do you remember?
"The holy cards with the face of Jesus I had so many, in my room, along with posters of Pirlo and Ronaldinho."
She arrived in Italy in 20 years, called from Turin. The idea of moving was more excited or scared?
"I felt serene. Before leaving I had spoken with Muntari, Appiah, Barusso, Ghanaians playing you. All I had said the same thing for 6 months, one year, it will be difficult, but you must not quit. And I gave up. In front of people I had Toro comeRecoba or Rosina: I could not get mad if I was not playing. I observed and learned. "
Even our language?
"That I learned alone, without books or teachers. If you do not speak well yet is because I use only Italian. ».
And Toto Di Natale, when he talked about his Italian-Neapolitan slang, I understand?
"Only sometimes. I always called uagliò, uagliò "(laughs).
About friends: if they have made ​​many in Italy?
"Someone. It is difficult, because after the workout I'm not the one that says: go for a drink. If you want to stop talking, fine, if not back to my house. "
Racism against him?
"Never. I found only kindness. Perhaps it is because I am a very calm person. Anyone who knows me says to me, Asa, you're a good person. They say it because they realize that I am different from other Africans who know. "
In what way different?
"In Udine there are so many Ghanaians, and many of my race in general. Many of them go to the disco, casino, and they get angry right away if someone says something that they do not like. If instead one says to me "nigger" or another stupid thing on my origins or the color of my skin, I laugh. Do not get angry like the others you mention, I listen and then I go. In Udine, I have always recognized a different mindset from that of my countrymen, and for me it is important not only be judged a good player. "
What do you like, Italy?
"The sea, though I've only seen in Lignano Sabbiadoro. The food: I devour pasta with shrimp and chicken wings. The films with the Roman comedians. And the fashion: you've learned to dress. My favorite brands are Dsquared and Dolce & Gabbana. I like to put my jacket, a boy even wore a tie like daddy. "
Ghana is a politically stable country with low crime, abundant natural resources. Yet the rate of infant mortality is 57 per thousand children, life expectancy is 56 years for men and 59 for women, almost 30% of the population lives below the poverty line. How do you explain that?
"The problem is common across Africa: a few, among those who govern, have at heart the interest of all. Democracies are still young, military governments, corrupt or unstable: 100, 10 only think of the people and not only to themselves, to becoming richer. "
She does something for his people?
"When I'm there, I fill the machine with things to eat, clothes, games for children, and distribute to the poor of my neighborhood. But I do not like talking about it. I know what I do, but do not go around saying. "
Source: SportWeek (article by Fabrizio Salvio)
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