Football, one of the most fascinating sports, is currently marred by several problems that make the news. These problems are family issues and betrayals. Although it is common for football stars to have family troubles, nobody anticipates that football stars will be upset by their family’s betrayals or that football stars will break their own families.
RYAN GIGS AND HIS BROTHER’S WIFE
Ryan Giggs is one of football’s all-time most decorated players. Giggs had won 13 Premier League championship medals while playing for United, along with four FA Cups, three League Cups, two UEFA Champions League medals, a FIFA Club World Cup medal, an Intercontinental Cup medal, a UEFA Super Cup medal, and nine FA Community Shield medals betrayal is seen as one of the shocking family betrayals in football history.
In 2011, it was revealed that Ryan Gigg had been having an eight-year affair with his brother’s (Rhodri Giggs) wife. This shocking revelation affected Ryan Giggs’s fame as it send shockwaves through the football community and permanently damaged the footballer’s family.
Rhodri Giggs’s ( Ryan Giggs’s brother) wife Natasha Giggs acknowledged having a relationship with Ryan Giggs from 2003 until 2011 even when she was in a serious relationship with Ryan’s brother.
The shocking part of the story was when Natasha opened up that she had aborted Ryans Giggs’s child weeks before she married his brother Rhodri in Las Vegas in 2010.
However, when Natasha made this public, Ryan was still married and had kids with Stacey Cooke. The Giggs family was torn apart by the affair, with relationships never fully recovering from the shocking football star betrayal.
Football Stars and Family Betrayals didn’t stop with the Giggs family. four years later came the Emmanuel Adebayor story.
EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR AND HIS BROTHER
Emmanuel Adebayor’s story is another example of football Stars and family betrayers. In 2015, Emmanuel Adebayor explained his side of the story after his family had accused him of being under a spell of alfa (a traditionalist cleric).
The footballer star who had played for several prominent clubs like Arsenal, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Tottenham, and several European clubs opened up deep family secrets that led to the saga.
Adebayor explained that all the accusations happened when he decided to separate himself from his brother Rotimi Adebayor after several years of his misbehaviour. Adebayor opened up on how his brother Rotimi several times had stolen from him.
Emmanuel Adebayor Narrated how his brother stole the jersey he had swapped with Marc-Vivien Foé at Mali during the 2001 Afcon and also the jersey signed by Zinedine Zidane during the champions league while playing for As Monaco.
Adebayor made clear how he brought Rotimi to a football academy in France, however, Rotimi later stole his teammates’ cell phones and got sacked.
Adebayor also explained how his brother Kola Adebayor who he had helped to get to Europe and even supported his family had granted “the Sun media” an interview telling the media an untrue story about him to the extent a letter was sent to Real Madrid that almost got him sacked.
Emmanuel Adebayor concluded by saying that he did not share this story to expose his family’s betrayals but to make African families learn from his story.
PAUL POGBA AND HIS BROTHER MATTHIAS
The Pogba family saga is the latest one still making the news as investigations are ongoing. On August 28, Mathias Pogba the elder brother of Paul Pogba released a video on social posted in four different languages.
Mathias Pogba revealed in the video to have discriminating information regarding his brother Paul Pogba, his brother’s lawyer Rafaela Pimenta, who has been tasked with managing Paul Pogba’s career after the death of Italian agent Mino Raiola.
Mathias also accused his brother of telling a witch doctor to put a spell on Kylian Mbappe the Paris Saint-Germain forward and Pogba’s international teammate.
The French Football Star Paul Pogba is said to have reported the case to the police with other issues which he stated to be related to him being threatened by hooded men with assault guns in his Paris flat.
According to Paul Pogba, these assailants have sought €13 million (£11 million/$13 million) for service they claimed to have performed, specifically protecting him at all discretion. Furthermore, Paul Pogba claims intimidation techniques were allegedly used by these guys after they unexpectedly invited themselves to Manchester United and Juventus training sessions.
Also, Pogba claimed to have seen his brother among the gang members. He eventually paid the group €100,000 after being threatened.
MBAPPE RESPONSE TO MATHIAS VIDEO
During a press conference before the champions league game against Juventus on the 6th of September 2022, Mbappe was asked about the Mathias Pogba video he responded by saying that
“Paul Pogba called me and gave me his version of events,” he said. “Right now it’s Pogba’s word against his brother’s. I prefer to trust my teammate’s words. I prefer to trust the word of my international teammate.”
Finally
These unexpected football stars and family betrayals make one understand that fame and money are not enough to bring families together.
