Former German national team player, Gerald Asamoah, has indicated in an interview that his decision to fly doctors from Germany to Ghana for free heart surgery on kids was inspired by a condition which bedeviled him as a professional player in 1998.
According to the Philanthropist who was born in Mampong in Ghana, his football career almost hit the rocks when he was diagnosed with a heart condition. Subsequently, he made a covenant with God that if He helped him pull through, he would come through for him as well. The covenant, he claims, necessitated the Gerald Asamoah Foundation
“In 1998, I was a soccer player, and after a game, and they found a heart disease on my heart so it’s like you can’t play soccer anymore’ he continued ‘I was in love in God but I was not so deep in God, and I went to a bet form God that ‘God if I should make it to be on the pitch, I want to give something big.’ So I came back three months later and then I said God, ‘I have done it so I want to give back’ and that’s why I founded this foundation.”
Twenty-eight (28) kids benefitted from this year’s episode of the annual free surgery by Gerald Asamoah’s Heart Foundation. Thirty-five (35) doctors were flown into the country from Germany to perform the surgery, an activity which costs the foundation approximately €250,000
