The Story of a Born Champion

The story of my life begins in Paramaribo, Surinam were I was born in the year 1976. At the age of five, my family and I crossed the ocean to start a life in an new country, the Netherlands. You would expect that such a major change of circumstances would be unpleasant for me but that wasn’t true.

On the contrary, I was very excited. So in 1981, my mother, brother Milton, sister Ivette and I moved to the Netherlands were we were reunited with my father who was already living and working there. He had left Surinam a couple of years before we arrived because of his job. At the age of five I started to play soccer such as every ordinary Dutch boy did. This very popular Dutch sport was the love of my life and I put my heart and soul to it. I was a defender as well as the goalkeepers backup. These days I could not imagine a life without my beloved soccer....

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