I do not know exactly what it is, but there s something in my genes, explains Inaki Williams after 203 La-league games in a row, when he disclosed his family history for the first time on the occasion of his endurance record opposite the Guardian .
She starts a long time before April 17, 2016, when the pillar attacker missed a league game, because TeamMollege Yuri Berchiche had injured him in training at the ankle. Of course he did not forget that. It is a story of holding, which lasted far longer than five and a half years - and which was not written on lawn.
I knew that I am pregnant, I would have stayed.
Inaki Williams mother Maria
Maria is pregnant with Inaki, but it does not know when she bursts with her husband Felix from Ghana. Otherwise, I would have stayed, she says with the unequivocalty of a mother that leaves no interpretation. What the couple relies on the game when his homeland leaves in the early 1990s is just as unmistakable. Everything.
Left and right, Maria and Felix make people fail with them, as they march without food and drink through the Sahara. Barefoot. Therefore, Felix has problems with its soles today. But the two (or three) make it, it must be these genes that they can hold up to Melilla.
A lawyer and a priest
The Spanish enclave in the north of Africa is the gateway to a better future, should at least be. But on the spot, when climbing the fences towards the new life, they are arrested. It is a lawyer who helps the family and advises to spend themselves as political refugees from Liberia so that the fairytale history does not end at this point. To this day, the Williams does not even know his name, which Maria regrets very regretted.
Mother and father come to Bilbao, where Inaki saw the light of day. His namesake is a local priest who helps the acquaintances in building their new life, not least through clothes donations. The place of his birth is today 27-year-old as fate , which makes him play for Athletic today (by whose club policy).
But he grew up in Pamplona, where he was eating and something for dressing, but had no father for a long time, because he had to earn money in London for years. So inakis little brother Nico not really got to know him. Football professional, Inaki wanted to get back to his father to bring together his family.
A look over the shoulder: Brother Nico (Li.) Meanwhile plays with Inaki at Athletic. Getty Images
He does not know their whole story at this time, his mother tells him for the first time, there is 20 and already part of Athletic s first team. That left a deep impression. It s like a movie, and my parents have experienced that, reveals the young man who becomes a second black player in his home , who plays for the traditional club. And for the first, who achieves a goal.
A international game for Spain, none for Ghana
The term home plays in Williams life a weighty role, but he is clear about it. After a single international game, a friendly match 2016, he has disappeared from the chief circle of the Spanish national team, the Ghanaian has long knocked.
It would not be right to take the place of someone who feels Ghana 100 percent.
Inaki Williams
I guess and love Ghana, the culture, the food, the tradition, says Inaki, whose mother always turns into her mother tongue when she scolds with him. But I did not born there, my home is here. I would feel comfortable with Ghana, but there are players who would mean more. It would not be right to take the place of someone, the Ghana is 100 percent Feels and deserves it anymore.
Sepp Maier well unobcriber
Williams in Bilbao has long been earned. He could become one of those players who only play for Athletic - and without interruption. Even if Sepp Maier s 442 consecutive games between 1966 and 1979 are still in far away, the Spanish record is now his. Although he walked twice twice with four yellow cards in the last gaming days ( Fortunately, I hardly protest and protest ) and loudly had to make his own statement again.
And if he s a treat to crack the top story someday, it should be my brother , Flashing Inaki, who plays together with the 19-year-old Nico. The history of Williams is family and success story in one.
Therefore, the defeats in two Corona-related successive cup finals in the spring of 2021 do not attract so much in the end. Williams has long since celebrated the greatest success. What the indestructible Inaki means to be able to say to his parents: We did it.
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