He studies hospitality and tourism, a branch of cooking, and if he doesn’t pass, he doesn’t play. He is the young Ivorian footballer Aboubacar Bassinga, 18, who started cooking his game in First team of UD Las Palmas under the command of Xavi García Pimienta in the Copa del Rey against CD Tenerife, at the Heliodoro Rodríguez Lópéz stadium, 47 months after arriving in Gran Canaria by boat. Coach García Pimienta has a special nose for detecting talents and Bassinga is already one of the best at the club. “Abou played well, he’s a very smart kid,” said Pimi this Sunday in Tenerife.
The footballer, who was born on July 13, 2005, has only been in the federation for a few months and has only played more than a dozen games with the Division of Honor youth team, after going through an odyssey in his life: He arrived in Arguineguín by boat on February 13, 2020aged 14, as an unaccompanied foreign minor (MENA), although he His intention was to meet his uncle in France.but ran into the authorities.
“If the Police did not allow me to be with my uncle, it is because destiny and my fate are here,” he said in a recent report released by UD Las Palmas.
He left footed midfielder He was caught by the yellow team, warned by those who saw him doing well at street parties, and became part of the Las Palmas D team, founded in 2016, with cooperation of the Juvenile Judge, Reyes Martelthanks to the UP2U (It depends on you) program for the social insertion of young people led by the Canarian magistrate.
The great players of Africa He is one of the beneficiaries of FIFA’s decisionin early 2023, to relax the criteria for registration of foreign children supervised by public administrations in amateur divisions, although register with a professional club I had to wait until I turned 18.
Bassinga He recently became the first player to obtain a federative license at the Gran Canaria clubwho debuts this season with the youth team, and just hadand debut with the first yellow teamat least in a Canarian derby against Tenerife, after favorable reports received by the team’s first coach, García Pimienta.
Student in the hospitality industry – he chose cooking -, Bassinga only tasted the best dish after reaching, 1,424 days latera new shore, which is to show his talent in football to the professionals.
Source: La Verdad
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