Where Have You Been? Adiyiah, The ‘Blow’ Of Galliani: From The World Championship To Thailand

“Burnt Youth” is the title of a very famous American film released in 1955, directed by Nicholas Ray and the last famous appearance of the “beautiful and accursed” actor James Dean, who died a few months after a car accident : this combination of particular effect has entered by definition in the common jargon, to define who in the green age has shown great quality and the possibility of having a bright future in front of him, but then “burned” due to external events, of misfortune or of a particular character. This is the case of Dominic Adiyiah, a Ghanaian attacker from ’89: from the beginnings of a phenomenon to a present from desaparecido.

THE WORLD UNDER 20 FROM PROTAGONIST AND THE CALL OF MILAN – Born in the capital of Ghana, Accra, Adiyiah begins his career in the Academy of Feyenoord, founded by the Dutch club in Africa, with which he made his debut in the Ghanaian league. In 2007, at the age of just 18, he moved to the Heart of Lion Football Club, a Kpandu-based football club in the One Touch Premier League: with the blue jersey he scored 11 goals in the season and entered the All-Star championship, before being rewarded even as the best player of the year. But it is with the shirt of the national Under 20 that the young Dominic makes sparks: first wins the WAFU Under-20 Championship in 2008, which marks 4 goals, and the Africa Cup of the category in 2009, then leads to the triumph of the Black Stars in the 2009 Under-20 World Championship, won after penalties against Brazil, scoring 8 goals in 7 games, winning the title of top scorer and best player of the event and entering the list of the best footballers born after 1989 drawn up by Don Balón. Meanwhile, he left Ghana to join the Fredrikstad, in Norway, a club in which he debuted in the Europa League: but in Scandinavia Adiyiah there remains little, since October 31 of the same year comes a bid for him from Milan.

GALLIANI STREGATO, ITALY AMARA – Adriano Galliani, bewitched by that black pearl only to scrape, he buys from Fredrikstadt for 1.4 million euros and immediately launches him in the first team, before weaving it during the January market. It seems the beginning of the story, it’s the beginning of the end: young and inexperienced, at only 21 years the Ghanaian does not stand the bump with Milan and Italian football, losing behind the sequins and sequins without being able to give the best in the field. In the five months he spent in the Rossoneri he does not even play an official match with the first team, even struggling with the Primavera.

ADIYIAH TODAY – The question that everyone, especially the Milan fans, are now doing, is: what happened to Adiyiah? After having served in the Atyrau Futbol Kluby, a Kazakh company based in the city of Atyrau, the Ghanaian has found its size in the Nakhon Ratchasima Football Club, a Thai company based in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima and a militant in the Thai Premier League, the highest division of Thailand. Since 2015, the Ghanaian has played 80 games, scoring 14 goals: a brodino, if you think of the lights of the beginning, but at least a life recovered with serenity. Although, at the age of 28, Adiyiah has already completed his career in football that counts: when he says “burnt youth”.