The name Clancy Osei Konadu may not mean a lot to Tottenham fans, but the former right-back spent two years at the club between 2015 and 2017.
He arrived from Reading?s youth team before leaving for Italy to ACR Messina, where he played for just one year before heading to Belgium and then back to his native Netherlands, where he set up the academy 4ThePlayers.
He?s still only 26, but the former Tottenham youngster has given up on being a player, and is now focusing on developing a new generation, as explained in an article covering him over at SoccerNews.
It?s revealed that he lost the desire to play football ?after the death of his father?, but the Rotterdam native has now ?found a new mission?, which is helping amateur footballers becoming professional ones. His aim" Seeing one of his players feature at a World Cup.
First, he recalls his own career: ?I played quite high myself. In the Netherlands, I didn?t start at DEHMusschen until I was 12, but after I went to England, it moved quickly. I was scouted by Reading and then went to Tottenham Hotspur. I was in the U18s and occasionally trained with the first-team.
?There were players like Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Christian Eriksen and Harry Kane there. I saw what they do to play at that level. Every young player thinks: I?m going to make it to the Champions League and score the winning goal at a World Cup, but most don?t realise how many hours you have to train to pursue perfection. I am not going to promise t...