“Denzel Dumfries: The Player Who Saved Jamal Amofa’s Career”

Amofa, who has been playing at Go Ahead since this season, does not have an everyday route to professional football. After playing for Amsterdam amateur clubs and the youth teams of sc Heerenveen, he was told at the age of nineteen that he had to leave the Frisians. Amofa was handed one test match at FC Lienden. “The moment that I would stop permanently came closer and closer. But then there was Denzel Dumfries”, the defender noted by Football International.

“We had trained together at Heerenveen. One day Denzel contacted him. He asked: Jam, how is your situation now? What are you going to do? I answered honestly that I didn’t remember for a while. He said: I won’t accept that, you’re just going to make it! I’ll put you in touch with a number of agents who connect me. I’m going to introduce you to them. You’re too good to quit.”

Partly thanks to Dumfries, Amofa was invited for an internship at ADO Den Haag. “It was do-or-die. I gave everything and in the end I was allowed to stay. With the promises, that is. Thanks to Denzel. He saved my career. My mother often asks about him. We don’t forget things like that .” After four years of ADO, Amofa joined Go Ahead. In Deventer he has played himself in the spotlight at several clubs from the Netherlands and abroad.

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