Injury complicated the end of last year and the start of this one for Karim Adeyemi. The footballer, for whom Dortmund paid 30 million Last season in Salzburg, he didn’t really find his place and the injury further complicated everything. It was December and I barely scored two goals in the Champions League and he had yet to make his Bundesliga debut. And his poor performance was publicly blamed on his relationship with Loredana, the rapper of Albanian origin from Kosovo with whom he has shared his life since last summer.
“I knew what I was getting into and I knew she was a public figure. But the way people judged me and reacted after poor performances was crazy. I didn’t think it was unfair to me because I wasn’t playing well, but it was unfair to my girlfriend.. She and my family have nothing to do with how I play and what I do on the field. The responsibility lies solely with me, because I am the one on the ground. “Sometimes it seems strange to me that some people take the liberty of judging someone they don’t know,” he lamented in an interview with Borussia Dortmund’s YouTube channel.
That didn’t help either In November, he will give up playing with the German Under-21 side. after not being called up to the senior team. But what was interpreted as an act of pride, he describes as a health problem. “I always feel very proud when I play for Germany. But I had to find my rhythm again. and play again in Dortmund before I can show myself against the national team,” he explained. And his plans still include being able to play with Germany in the European Cup which is being played in his country this summer .
Character has always been an issue in his career, since He was kicked out of Bayern’s lower divisions, to which he had arrived at the age of seven. But a former Bayern footballer, Manfred Schwabl, signed him to Unterhaching and also hired his parents to make things easier.
Then came his signing at Salzburg, a club which has a great vision of working with young people, and his entry into the elite. Aged 22 in January, this son of a Nigerian and a Romanian This is one of Atlético’s big concerns for the second leg, now that they are starting to find the way to goal. His revenge against Bayern came with the one he scored at the Allianz Arena in his team’s 0-2 victory. He has already scored three in the last six days.