Gyang eager for NPFL action
With fews day to the kick off of the 2017/18 Nigeria Professional Football League season, Plateau United’s Amos Gyang can’t wait for the games to begin.
The diminutive winger is eager to get started because of his desire to prove doubters, in Jos, where Plateau United play their home games wrong.
It isn’t an agenda of sorts but an opportunity for him to show Jos fans that he has grown from the little kid on the street who was called ‘Mai Doya’ (yam seller) because he hawked yam for his mother while playing in youth football circles in Jos a few years back.
Gyang, who joined Plateau United from former NPFL champions Kano Pillars told npfl.ng that his experience with opposing fans while growing up in Jos has been a source of motivation for him to show he can succeed playing football.
He was the butt of jokes not because his family was so poor he couldn’t afford boots but chiefly due to the fact that he had a tray of yams on his head when he was not playing football on the streets.
A lot of coaches also had problems with his stature as they felt he could not cope with the physical demands of the game but he has been able to put all that behind him to play for the likes of Giwa FC, Kano Pillars and now Plateau United.
“It wasn’t easy for me in the beginning. A lot of people doubted me because of my stature. Some felt I could not make it in the game but I was willing to fight hard and tell them they were wrong,” Gyang told npfl.ng in Jos.