By Olalekan Bilesanmi
“My journey to being a world-famous soccer player wasn’t easy. The war started right from my father’s house in far-away Port Harcourt, some decades ago. My father actually wanted me to be a roadside mechanic”.
With these words, former Super Eagles of Nigeria and AC Milan of Italy player, Taribo West, told his story of growing up.
Narrating the story further, he said his mum disapproved of his father’s wish that he should be a mechanic.
His words: “My mother resisted strongly. She begged and begged him to allow me have, at least, a secondary…
