I spent nine-years at Liverpool before working for Amazon – Jeremie Frimpong is now helping keep my pro dream alive

Andy Kanga went to the same school as Trent Alexander-Arnold-Aber It is Liverpool’s new right-back, who helps him to follow a way up.

The content creator and half -professional footballer recently took part in the career fair of Jeremie Frimpongs Pathways Tournament X.

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The innovative event, which took place at the beginning of this summer, aims to enable young people to discover new career opportunities.

In a company that was led by Frimpong’s commercial manager Cedrick OFORI, a former Star City Starlet, the Dutch international has made a mission to help young people change from professional academies.

The first edition of the competition was such a success that an extended event will be planned at a larger venue next year.

During an exclusive interview with Talksport.com, Kanga said: “I think such things are great for the community and for the younger generation to see someone who comes out of the place where they come, and something like this only shows that they can continue in the future.

“It also shows the character of Jeremie to stay ground and not to forget its roots, even after taking a big step after Liverpool.”

In another timeline, Kanga teammates at Frimpong could have been in Anfield after being sought from the club as a teenager.

The Liverpudlian went to the same primary school as Alexander-Arnold, with the former vice captain of the Reds, Jamie Carragher, was present when he signed his first contract in the club.

“I always said that I couldn’t have had a better football foundation than at the Liverpools Academy,” added Kanga.

“They are near top talents at a young age, they play on the best parking spaces with top trainers, and it is an appropriate competitive environment, so it requires the best of them.

“When I go in Liverpool in Liverpool in the same primary school as Trent, I wanted to do the same thing when I was picked up at 6 or 7 years.

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“Jamie Carragher on the day of signing was a big moment”

“The day of signing was a big deal for the family. I let everyone come with me, my mother, my father, my brother and my sister. I could see my mother and my father, obviously made me happy.

“The academy was always a memory of us how big the club was. There were always pictures of legends in the entire academy. John Barnes, Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher.

“The Champions League Trophy was in the offices at the top, so they would always pass and see them.

“Jamie on the day of the signing was a big moment.”

As an emerging star in Liverpool, Kanga has moved to Rainhill High, the club’s Academy Education Center in Merseyside.

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Trent Alexander-Arnold trip to Liverpooler injuries

The famous alumni include Alexander-Arnold, Raheem Sterling, Jordan Ibe, Sheyi Ojo, Rhian Brewster, Curtis Jones and Jerome Sinclair, the youngest player in Liverpool’s story.

Devastatingly devastating, Kanga’s progress was restricted when he was 15 of a stress fracture in his back that stopped him for nine months.

At his first game in full fitness, a ruthless tackle caused damage to his ankle, and he left the match on crutches.

The timing of his two injuries coordinated in succession was particularly difficult because Liverpool handed both contracts and possibilities.

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“The worst of injuries is that it simply cannot play,” Kanga explained to talk sport. “I remember that I had a stress fracture and failed, and I would itch myself to get back to the pitch.

“Obviously, the time of the injury was not ideal either, since it was so close to decisions, contracts and things.

“Even if you can’t play with your friends, you only concentrate on returning 100 percent. So that was also difficult.”

Niall Brookwell played in Kanga’s age group at the age of 15 under Club Icon Gerrard for the red under the age of 18.

In the meantime, Leighton Clarkson, Jake Cain, Jack Walls, Remi Savage and Owen Beck signed all their first professional offers with Liverpool – with the latter, which was borrowed this summer, and celebrated his first team in the EFL cup in October 2021.

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Liverpool contract and release

Kanga worked in the right -back after overcoming his injuries. A position that Liverpool already had had a embarrassment of wealth.

Nottingham Forest defender

And after Liverpool reduced his season after his injuries, he informed Kanga sadly that he would be released.

Despite his established academy tribe tree, exams in Leeds, West Brom, Bournemouth and Bradford were all unsuccessful.

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Blackpool gave him a lifeline a month before his 17th birthday, but Covid soon closed the football world – and Kanga received the news during the Lockdown in July 2020 that he was released.

He continued: “After the release to other clubs, it was obviously a big cultural shock, and I noticed how well we had it in Liverpool.

“Signed in Blackpool, forever grateful for you that you accepted me, but at the time the club was actually financially financially at a difficult place and even as the club was managed.

“But despite the differences in the standards and similar standards, it was honestly one of the best experiences I had in football, only from the group of boys who were with me at that time.”

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Loughborough University to the Pathways Initiative of Jeremie Frimpong

Kanga’s two-year-old Covid Distripted stay in Blackpool proved to be in a professional club last time.

“I think the biggest challenges in which footballers would need help after release would be to find their identity away from football,” he said.

“After growing up and everyone await you that you will become a footballer, but it can be mentally hard, but to have this support in order to build up the self -worth and career of the players outside the game.”

In October 2020, Kanga incorporated the Loughborough University and hoped that offers arrived while playing full-time for the campus team.

He studied business finance, whereby the plan was that Kanga could restart his football career by the following January.

However, after Kanga had been disappointed by his agent who had not kept the promise to find him as a new club, he found work instead and even trained as a hairdresser.

“If they are released at the age of 18, they have to look for real life like all other places and for opportunities to take care of themselves,” he admitted.

“Obviously I was at university and remember that I did the strange night shift in the Amazon Warehouse, which I would not recommend to my worst enemy.

“But even since I am there, I used it to learn lessons, talk to people from different cultures and backgrounds and also hear their stories.

“They have people who have been there for years to take care of the families, compared to some of us who only wanted to finance one vacation or something. So that was a real eye opener.”

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Raheem Sterling, Steven Gerrard or Paul Pogba are dream guests

Since November, Kanga has been a creator of social media content for recruiting players and a follow-up platform, which was co-founded by Patrice Evra.

He continues to play semi-pro-football and documents his offer to achieve the professional ranks of his inspiring YouTube channel.

Kanga said: “The best lesson that football taught me is to sit down in the first place.

“With my YouTube channel, I have a series in which I document the trip on which I try to show the realities to hunt your dreams on the way.

“I had the pleasure of interviewing challenges and playing challenges [Newcastle’s] Anthony Elanga and [Newport’s] Cameron Antwi.

“One of my dream guests will be either Raheem Sterling, Steven Gerrard or Paul Pogba.”

In the short term, the way ahead of us is clear for the first time in years.

“My goals for the next 12 months are to continue to grow people, improve and inspire, not to give up their dreams.”