The Ghanaian forward Christian Atsu, who played for Chelsea and Newcastle, died in the Turkish earthquake. I’m 31 years old.
According to his manager, the rescue teams found his body amid the ruins of a luxurious building where he lived in Antakya, a city in the province of Hatay.
“The dead body of Atsu was found among the escombros. They are still removing their belongings at this time, according to their manager Murat Uzunmehmet, who spoke to the news agency DHA.
Atsu joined Turkish club Hatayspor in September and scored the game-winning goal against Kasimpaşa S.K. at home on February 5 hours before the earthquake that struck early on February 6 of February.
Antakya is located in Turkey’s southeast, in the earthquake’s hardest-hit area. The number of people killed by the 7.8 degree earthquake in Siria and Turkey on Friday exceeded 43,000.
Hatayspor stated that Atsu’s body would be sent to Ghana. No words can adequately express our sadness, the club wrote on Twitter.
The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, posted an image of Atsu on Twitter along with the statement, “The Ghanaian football has lost one of its most honourable members and ambassadors, one who is difficult to replace. Le will be greatly exempted.
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One day after the earthquake, it was reported that Atsu had been found. However, his club later acknowledged that the initial announcement that they had reports that he was safe and on his way to the hospital was incorrect. Taner Savut, your sporting director, has continued to vanish.
The Atsu agent Nana Sechere travelled to Turkey with many members of the football player’s family in an effort to find him alive.
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Atsu played in more than 60 matches for Ghana and made his debut at the age of 20 in 2012. She was a member of the team that competed in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2014 Africa Cup of Nations, where she scored two goals and helped Ghana reach the final.
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Atsu signed a contract with the Chelsea in 2013, but he only participated in exhibition matches and was offered to several clubs the following four years. The defender signed a pre-contract agreement to join Newcastle in 2016, and he was a member of the squad that won promotion to the Premier League in the 2016–17 season.
In 2017, he signed a permanent contract with the Newcastle, spending the next four years with the team. The club stated on Saturday that it was “profoundly saddened” by Atsu’s passing.
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