Japanese striker who plays for Abusua Dwarfs starts speaking Fante
- Jindo Morishita, a 25-year-old Japanese who plays for Ebusua Dwarfs in Cape Coast, has begun learning to speak the local dialect, Fante
- In the video sighted, Morishita was able to say, "thank you very much" and "little by little" in the Ghanaian language
- He came to Ghana after the outbreak of COVID-19 took him away from his former club FC Muza in Zambia
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Ebusua Dwarfs striker, Jindo Morishita, who comes from Japan is beginning to pick up the local dialect Fante which is the mother-tongue of the natives of the Central Region.
The popular Ghanaian football club is located at Cape Coast, which is the capital city of the region whilst Morishita is the first Japanese to play in the Ghana Premier League.
In a video sighted by YEN.com.gh on the Twitter handle of famous sports journalist, George Addo Junior, Jindo made a few statements including,
"I am picking up the language little by little" and "thank you very much"
See the video below:
Also in the footage, Morishita explained what led to him coming all the way from Japan to Ghana to join a football team.
According to him, although he was born in Japan, he was raised in the Netherlands in Europe where he started his football career before moving on to Indonesia.
"I then returned to Japan and played in the best soccer team among Japanese universities. I stayed there for four years and then travelled to Zambia as a professional footballer in the club FC Muza", he recounts.
The Japanese player left FC Muza when COVID-19 broke out and returned to his country.
When football picked up again, he decided to come back to Africa but this time, Ghana.
Source: Twitter
Meanwhile, an amazing woman who dressed casually in a long skirt and her pink shirt has displayed great and skillful tactics with the football like a professional player.
In a video that was sighted by YEN.com.gh on the verified Facebook handle of Pulse Ghana, the lady alternated the ball with different parts of her body without allowing it to ever hit the ground.
Some men who were spotted nearby kept starring at the skilful display of the woman and appeared to be in utter amazement of what was happening before their eyes.
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