Akrobeto: Football star Patrice Evra shares actor's video
- Akrobeto has been featured by Patrice Evra on his Instagram page
- The former Manchester United defender shared a video of Akrobeto reading news
- Evra's post comes after Akrobeto's recent interview on Spanish TV show El Chiringuito TV
Trending topics on the go: How we write news at YEN.com.gh
Install our latest app for Android and read the best news about Ghana
Comic actor and TV personality Akrobeto, known in private life as Akwasi Boadi, has been making makes waves in international media in the last few days.
It all started when one of Akrobeto's videos for his comic news presentation show got posted on the Twitter page of Chelsea captain César Azpilicueta.
Akrobeto had fumbled in mentioning the Chelsea captain's name and the Spanish international retweeted the video with a link showing how his name to should be pronounced.
Source: Instagram
Days after Azpilicueta's tweet, the popular Spanish TV show El Chiringuito TV featured the veteran actor on the show.
Akrobeto was called onto the show via video call for an interview and he was even allowed to do a live presentation for the audience.
Within hours of his interview on El Chiringuito TV, Akrobeto has got international attention and it is from another football star, Patrice Evra.
The former Manchester United and Juventus defender has taken to Instagram to share one of Akrobeto's videos with his over seven million followers.
While Akrobeto's videos which have gone international have always been about football, this one was about COVID-19.
Akrobeto was reading 'news' on the number of COVID cases recorded across the world and he fumbled leaving Evra laughing.
Sharing the video, Evra indicated that w have finally been served with the real number of COVID-19 cases.
He also jokingly described Akrobeto as the uncle of Ngolo Kante asking the Chelsea midfielder to come and carry him away.
"Finally, we got the real #covid_19 cases @nglkante can you come and pick up your uncle please ❤️ #ilovethisgame #positive4evra #savage," he said.
Evra's post which has been viewed over 350,000 times within four hours has got many of his followers in stitches.
This is not the first time the highly respected actor and comedian has got international attention.
It will be recalled that he was once featured on another Spanish broadcasting channel, Marca TV, over his news report about a match.
Have national and human interest issues to discuss? Know someone who is extremely talented and needs recognition?
Your stories and photos are always welcome. Get interactive via our Facebook page
Source: YEN.com.gh
