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Ghana winger Christian Atsu has lost his mother. The Newcastle star took to his social media pages to announce his mother’s death today.
He posted: “Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, you are loved beyond words and we will miss you beyond measure as you left us today #RIPMum”.
The Newcastle United Twitter account and Atsu’s Black Stars teammate Felix Annan were among the first to react to their mother’s death.
In a 2018 interview, Atsu credited his mother with her strong religious background that continues to guide her career.
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He said, “One day, I went to church. If he went to church on a Sunday, then maybe the next Sunday he wouldn’t go. At that time I was not even 16 years old. Then the pastor said something to my mom. I was very young, but what he told me was very painful for me “One day, I went to church. If he went to church on a Sunday, then maybe the next Sunday he wouldn’t go. At that time I was not even 16 years old. Then the pastor said something to my mom. I was very young, but what he said was very painful for me.
“He said, ‘If you’re this age and you don’t know what’s good or bad, then maybe you won’t grow back.’ I took it as a bad comment, but for me, I think it was a good thing. I realized that ‘He has seen me as a grown man. I can make a decision. ‘ It is what you are doing, what you believe in, how you think. I felt that anything you can go through can help you become a man quickly. “
Atsu, 28, was born in Ada Foah on the southeast coast of Ghana. He was one of ten children and his father Emmanuel died when he was 12 years old.
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