Michael Ameyaw responds to comments about call-up: ‘I disagree with that’
The rumor about Michael Ameyaw’s possible call-up to the Polish national team has sparked a flood of comments. Some of them were not favorable and referred to his skin color. The Piast Gliwice player reacted to the fans’ posts. He made it clear.
The next matches of the Polish national football team are approaching with great strides, this time in the Nations League. In the group we will face Croatia, Portugal and Scotland. Michał Probierz is to announce the list of those called up on August 29, three days before the start of the training camp.
Michael Ameyaw responds to comments
There have been rumors in the media that one of the debutants in the Polish national team is to be Michael Ameyaw from Piast Gliwice. The 23-year-old was born in Łódź, his mother is Polish and his father comes from Ghana. After this information was provided by Interia, many comments appeared on social media, unfortunately some of them related to the color of his skin.
Michael Ameyaw was a guest on the Liga+ Extra program on Canal+, where he responded to the comments on the rumors about his possible call-up to the national team. “After the information that I could be called up to the national team, I won’t hide the fact that I went into the comments. There were a lot of positive reactions and comments. In such a sea, there will always be a negative one,” he confessed.
– I read later in the media that the fans behaved terribly. I do not agree with that. Let’s not make Poles racists. Poland is a great country to live in and I would absolutely not call it that – he emphasized.
Michael Ameyaw: Skin color shouldn’t determine that
In this season of PKO BP Ekstraklasa Michael Ameyaw has already scored two goals in six matches. One each against Śląsk Wrocław and GKS Katowice.
– To the people who wrote comments that I am not Polish. Maybe they do not realize that I was born in Poland, my mother is Polish, my father has lived in Poland for over thirty years and also has Polish citizenship. I think that the color of the skin should not determine whether you can call someone Polish or not – he concluded.
