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From Venice to the Cuckoo Boats - Uchegbulam - Devongone - 06-01-2023
Heart-warming article on the BBC website about Jesurun Uchegbulam.
Nigeria to Venice as a baby. Spotted as a boy by AC Milan. Scored shed loads of goals for their Academy teams from Centre Back! Came to England with his parents. Was settling in at Everton when a heart problem was detected and he underwent heart surgery. He's played his way back as far as us and he seems delighted, not in the least resentful about what he left behind.
The Chesterfield canal doesn't bear much comparison with Venice. The Technique looks nice, but the San Siro it ain't. But I'd love to see the smile on this lad's face if he could pop one in against the Baggies.
The question it poses to me is why wasn't this story in full told on our website? What other stories lie behind our players? Surely supporters want to identify with them and share in their successes, and even their failures. We can do better than anodyne interviews and brief pen portraits can't we? Even now our site doesn't direct visitors to the BBC article.
Go to BBC Football.
RE: From Venice to the Cuckoo Boats - Uchegbulam - Dancingwilldoit - 07-01-2023
Read it yesterday. Good article and was v interesting because I had no idea if his background. Like you say stuff like this should be on our own site but when the first team squad only seems to be updated once a year I don't think there's much chance.
RE: From Venice to the Cuckoo Boats - Uchegbulam - Devongone - 11-01-2023
What makes me angry is volunteers could do the work for them. All they would have to do is read it and upload it.
Imagine how fascinating Danny Rowe's career could be from Man Utd downwards ......... how did he feel ....... because this is a guy with real talent, just not quite enough all round maybe.
Tshimanga? Dobra and his Albanian dad and his hopes of reaching international level (they have a lot of decent players if they could get together properly) ........