Owusu-Abeyie joined Arsenal from the Ajax academy in 2003 and went on to make only five senior appearances for the Gunners in his three years at the club.
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âIf it wasnât for Arsenal, maybe I would have led definitely a different life,â Quincy told The Athletic. âMaybe I would have just a normal nine to five, maybe I would have been a street guy, I donât know⊠but fortunately I got that phone call.
âI was born and raised in Amsterdam. Bijlmermeer is the area â itâs basically the âhood. It wasnât easy. Sometimes you might be on the block and you might hear a gunshot, or you might hear that someone got stabbed. When I got that phone call, I said âArsenal? Who doesnât want to play for Arsenal?!
âThat moment when I met Arsene Wenger is when it sort of sank in, when I realised⊠Itâs not on TV anymore. So I looked at my agent, and my agent looked at me, and it was like, âBoy⊠I gotta get the job done'.â