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Poverty made me a man (28.11.2005)
By DAVID BARNES
thesun.co.uk
JEAN-ALAIN BOUMSONG has talked for the first time of the poverty that drove him and his family into a desperate fight for survival.
Newcastle star Boumsong knows that, whatever problems he has to tackle at the heart of defence, he has already come through a tougher ordeal than any player could ever imagine.
It began when his dad — a former international volleyball star — lost his job at a Guinness brewery during an economic crash in his native Cameroon.
French ace Boumsong, 25, revealed: “I still remember that day. It was terrible. I cried over it. You see a
family’s standard of living come tumbling down.
“It really triggered something off for me. I became aware of the reality and the difficulty of life.
“I entered the adult world that day — I was 13.”
His mum took him and his five younger brothers to seek a new life in France — a move that led to severe financial hardship.
He added: “My brothers and I all slept in the same bedroom, with my mother in the living room.
“Conditions were very difficult. We went to the cheap shops on social assistance.
“I helped my mother and went to register my brothers at school. I was at the heart of the financial problems.
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