Does an African football star’s job end at running after a ball and scoring goals? Cameroon’s Benoît Assou-Ekotto doesn’t think so. The Indomitable Lions defender believes African athletes who are lucky to become famous need to use their fame to help less privileged members of their communities beat poverty.
Assou-Ekotto is a special advocate for the U.N. Millennium Campaign which seeks to end extreme poverty by 2015. He plans to work with youths in his country, and elsewhere in Africa, with his key message being the importance of education.
The Tottenham Hotspur left-back talks about this in the following video (in French).
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