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Michael Essien

Ghanaian athlete
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Michael Essien (born December 3, 1982, Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian professional football (soccer) player who rose to international stardom as a midfielder for the English football club Chelsea FC in the 2000s. Essien was raised in Awutu Breku, a small town in central Ghana, where his interest in football was sparked, in part, by his father, who was a former local professional player. At age 12 the younger Essien relocated to Accra with his mother and siblings, and two years later he won a football scholarship to a secondary school in Cape Coast. After graduation Essien played with a ...(100 of 528 words)

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