From Arsenal and Barça to Djibouti football
Few people know or know where it is Djibouti. This little country of East Africa barely has 1 million inhabitants and of course, your soccer team has never participated in a major competition such as a World Cup or an Africa Cup. In fact, their selection is one of the worst, not only in the world but in the African continent. But nevertheless, they have their soccer league. So far nothing remarkable except for the arrival to his championship of a former player of all a Barça.
Alex Song, from Arsenal and Barça to the Djibouti soccer league
The Cameroonian footballer has a fairly extensive resume after playing in; Bastia, Arsenal, Charlton, Barcelona, West Ham, Rubin Kazan and Sion. But the icing on the cake was missing, his signing for him AS Arta Solar7 from Djibouti football to the 33 years. A destination as peculiar as it is unexpected for a player still old enough to be in a European league.
But the life of this peculiar footballer with 27 brothers has taken a turn. Signed in 2012 for Barça from Arsenal and did not become consolidated in the culé team. Although this always mattered little to him. “Zubizarreta told me that he was going to play little but this really did not matter to me because he knew that from that moment, I was going to be a millionaire” has recognized different interviews.
After living an ordeal in clubs like Rubin Kazan or Sion where they did not pay him, Alex Song now start this peculiar adventure in Djibouti leaving other curious stories of this sport.
