Former Ghana youth forward Benjamin Tetteh likened to Wilfred Bony at Bohemians 1905

Published on: 16 October 2017

As coach of Sparta he led Wilfried Bony, who just started a career in Summer. Currently, Martin Hašek trains another Prague unit, Bohemians 1905, and attempts to attack another African jewel, who would like to shine at the highest level once. Benjamin Tetteh is at the "kangaroos" for a while, but he has already received a great praise from the bench boss.

From Africa through Sparta to fulfilling the dream of engaging in the Premier League. This way, a couple of years back, Wilfried Bony, who has been working in England, has gone through it. It has become a model for many young Africans heading for Czech competitions. One of them is also Benjamin Tetteh, who has been kicking in Dolecek since summer.

In Bohemians 1905 he is in charge of Martin Hasek, who as Sparta coach was when Bony shot and left for big money to Arnhem in the Netherlands. The coach of the Vršovice team is now also trying to kick off the twenty-year-old Ghanan, who after a couple of weeks of cooperation managed to catch up with him.

"The coach told me he was training Bony Wilfred, and when he compares us he sees a similar potential in me. It's great to hear something from the coach and it gives me the motivation to keep trying", admitted Tetteh who tasted the Czech league last season during hosting in Slovácko.

The young striker, who is almost two meters away on the pitch, liked the coach so much he had confidence in the last three league rounds, and with "kangaroos". In Prague, he has already managed to score six matches and one goal. To this position, however, Tetteh had to miss a pretty winding path that, in other decisions or less fortunate, could look quite different.

Tetteha and his two older brothers were brought up only by the mother, as his father moved away from the family early. It was the native brothers of Ghana Accra who led to soccer, which regularly played in the streets. "I first caught myself, and then I started playing in the field, but you play in the street that is left to you," recalls the moments from the young.

Tetteh was already able to play the opponent, as one of the richer kinsmen, who had brought him to one of the Accra teams at the age of fifteen. "I went to live with him, at the same time he became my manager and took care of me," he said.

In Ghana, a young striker has gone through two units before his next steps have gone to Europe. The tests were Salzburg, Mönchengladbach, Basel, Atletico Madrid or Manchester City. He finally got his services at eighteen years at Belgian Standard Liege.

"The manager told me that it would be useless to sign the contract in Manchester and not play it for him at all. I agreed and it was a good step," he acknowledged. At the same time, he admits that the beginnings in Europe were very difficult for him.

"Libya was my first professional club, the first time I had been in Europe for a long time, and as a young man I was used to traveling to Europe on an experience and then returning to Africa, suddenly living alone in Belgium, I was eighteen and it was really for me heavy, "he said.

In the first season in Belgium Tetteh played fourteen duels and scored two goals. However, he was keen to change again when he first tasted what it is like to play in the Czech Republic. The host was taken by Slovácko, where he played with agility and technique rather on the wing.

After a year in Uherské Hradiště, however, Tetteh headed back to Belgium, where Bohemians 1905 brought him in, and this time it was a permanent transfer. Ghana's youth representative is in Prague so far for a while, but he is very happy in the new environment.

"Hradiste is a beautiful place, people are nice there, but compared to Prague it is a village.In Hradiště I only went to training and home, here I can go to a lot of places.I used to spend most of my time at home, but in Prague my colleagues took me to the city and it has changed, I'm still trying to go out and look at it here, "he says happily.

He is also enthusiastic about engaging in Dolek. "I'm really happy here, everyone welcomed me in the team after the transfer, they are all nice in the cabin, I feel really great here from the first moment," Tetteh said with the fact that Bohemians also enjoyed another thing, a kangaroo like a mascot.

"It's a terrible joke when it comes to the pitch and jumps all around," he added.

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