The desire to seek greener pastures in Europe among young Nigerian footballers is very common despite the challenges that comes with culture shock due to change of environment.

It is in the light of the above that a young Nigerian teenage footballer has revealed how he almost died in Hungary in the early period he got to the East European nation.

Sani Abacha, the 17 years old Nigerian player that plies his trade with Budapest Honved FC in Hungary said he found it very difficult to eat European foods when he newly arrived the country to play the round leather game.

He exclusively disclosed his shocking experience to our reporter, how the culture shock of the types of foods eaten in Hungary made him to start skipping meals because he found it difficult to eat those foods. He could only manage with bread and tea as breakfast and snacks.

“When i got to Hungary, they gave me foods that i could not eat. I was not comfortable with how the foods tasted in my mouth.

I was only able to eat some snacks, then bread and tea as breakfast,” Abacha told Francis Achi .

“Football is energy sapping and i needed to eat well so as to do well in training.

But i was not eating very well during that period. I thank God that it did not affect my performance on the field,” he added.

“I was feeling sick for about two months. I felt i was dying. I adapted quickly to their weather but it was very difficult for me to adjust to their foods.

In short hunger almost killed me in Hungary that period as i was not able to eat Nigerian foods,” he further said.

“Then i did not know where they sell Nigerian foods, i did not know any African restaurants in Budapest. I was only thinking about football. Well, the story is different now because i know where to eat Nigerian delicacies.

“After about three months, i adjusted to their foods in Hungary and it is now normal for me, but at my early stage in the country, i felt i wanted to die.

“Now i eat their foods and if i feel like eating Nigerian foods, i eat that too.

I normally eat pounded yam and egusi soup once in a while, but i am yet to see or eat tuwo shinkafa in Budapest,” he concluded.

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It's not 9ja type of hunger, he was choosy.
I will eat almost anything anywhere. Favourite thing about travelling.

They suppose rename 9ja, RealHungry.

May God bless his hustle

When you carry your two legs go country wey dem dey call "Hungary"- a country of hungry people, no be you find yourself trouble?

Rhythm to my ears

Sani Abacha does that name ring a bell?

I just dey laff...

sorry

In short hunger almost killed me in Hungary that period as i was not able to eat Nigerian foods,” he further said.

“Then i did not know where they sell Nigerian foods, i did not know any African restaurants in Budapest. I was only thinking about football. Well, the story is different now because i know where to eat Nigerian delicacies.

You can take the boy out of Nigeria, but you cannot take Nigeria out of the boy.

Nigerians in diaspora, did you feel this way at anytime when you first travelled?
Let's hear from you guys!

badboy92:


For me no,
I enjoy English breakfast and English foods more than Nigerian foods despite the fact I was raised in Nigeria.

Nice one.

I can only imagine the number of white kpekus he has been able to eat because of his name.

That name eh

You no fit buy grilled chicken or whole chicken barbecue and take with coke. It has a lot of calories to keep u going.

Everything abt this guy is not right
From the name to the country he traveled.
U de answer sani abacha come travel to Hungary
He wan kill himself by himself haa!!!

It is well bro.

The dude was HUNGRY IN HUNGARY


It would make a good movie title

Sani Abacha never die?
With a name like that you are begging to be killed

you have to improvise when abroad...

Blended rice can be made into solid fufu looking meal same as flour and wheat, almost every european country has okro, tomatoes, chilly peper and Tatashe.. they have spinach and other leave that are as sweet as normal nigerian leaves


.

Very soon this one too go wear green white green jersey because E don dey play for one Budapest club.

No condition is permanent...

Sure same way oyibo ppl see our foods as suicidal.....


Like my lecturer use to say "eat it" if e purge you purge, purge no dey kill.....

ThinkWISELY:
So Naira Marley dey maddddd .5 million Naira category for a ticket!,highest ever in Africa for any type of concert,sold out!,from a hit on thug(as most would call him)he has got so much confidence!.
One thing have come to learn on what successful people have in common is their headstrong perseverance,they never quit,no matter what life or business throws at them.

Perseverance is a great element of success.If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate,you are sure to wake up somebody.

Davido has been selling 5M table from 2017

Lobi stars once had a player by that name. thought it was him. And i thought it was real hunger too

Yen yen yen. Beef , lamb, and chicken no dey abi

Hungry in Hungary.

But your name reminds me of the dictator that died after eating Apple.

Are all Abachas destined to die due to food related issues?

Hahahaaa....

Hunger is everywhere my Broda..

As long as you're still struggling to survive

Hunger in Hungary.