Aboagye has three more years to serve at Ghana’s medium security prison, having already served six years and some months.
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VIDEO: Meet the talented goalkeeper trying to launch his career from Nsawam Prison
The walls of a prison may not be an ideal place for any ambitious person. For Arhin Aboagye, though, the goal is to launch his career as a goalkeeper at the Nsawam Prison.
VIDEO: Meet the talented goalkeeper trying to launch his career from Nsawam Prison
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In a documentary aired by TV3, the young man tells the story of how he’s been working hard to realise his dream of becoming a professional goalkeeper.
According to him, he has always wanted to become a goalkeeper but his parents preferred having him in school instead.
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Arhin Aboagye
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This, he said, made him become a truant, with some of his deviant acts being the reason for his imprisonment.
“My wish was to be a goalkeeper but my parents wanted me to be in school,” Aboagye said in an honest revelation.
“I wasn’t a brilliant child in school so I thought football would offer an escape. I ended up a truant. It was through my deviant behavior I ended up here.”
He said being in prison has dealt him a massive reality check and, he doesn’t just look forward to being reformed, but also taking advantage of every opportunity to launch a career.
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Arhin Aboagye saving a penalty kick
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“I was really wayward; I was doing a lot of illegal things but, being here has helped in orienting my mindset,” he said.
“This place has refined me. I don’t joke with my training here because I know it’s football that will give me a good future.”
Aboagye looks up to Ajax goalkeeper Andre Onana and says he hopes to emulate the success of the young Cameroonian goalie.
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Luckily for him, immediately the documentary went viral, Onana spotted it and has promised to send a signed jersey and gloves to Aboagye.
“I don’t want to go back to doing the illegal things that brought me here. I want to do better so as to continue with my football,” Aboagye added:
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