former player of Malaga CF Christian Atsu, 31 years old, rescued from the rubble of collapsed apartment building It is the earthquake that shook Turkey. According to an exclusive broadcast of The Mirror, at the time of the earthquake, the football player was in his home on the ninth floor of an eleven-story building.

Christian Atsu had played in chelsea, Everton, bournemouth And Newcastle He played in the English league before moving to Turkish club Hatayspor in September last year.

The Ghanaian scored the goal his club scored in the last minutes of the match. He played against Kasımpaşa last Sunday afternoon. and returned to his apartment after celebrating the victory by playing a late night game of poker with his teammates..

Nana Sechere, Atsu’s representative in London, assured this British newspaper. last heard from him at midnight on Sunday.. Christian and his friends were playing poker at a friend’s house until 3:30 in the morning.

“The journey back to his apartment took about half an hour.. He came back at 4 am and the earthquake started about 20 minutes later. I didn’t know anything until I got a call from a club official at 5am asking if I had heard from Christian. He told me that Christian’s building was completely destroyed and they couldn’t find him.”

“I was hoping he was awake and there was no earthquake while he was sleeping”

“I was hoping he was awake and there was no earthquake while he was asleep. He lives on the ninth floor of an eleven-story building. Club officials were trying to help me find him, but it was very difficult because they were understandably trying to find their own friends and family as well,” says Nana Sechere.

“There has been a lot of news from the UK and Ghana that Christian is safe. but the first official confirmation I got from the club came at 6 o’clock on Tuesday morning,” continues Sechere.

“They told me he’s in the hospital and doing well. He doesn’t have a phone and like all of us I can’t remember the numbers by heartso I have to keep waiting to talk to him, ”says the player’s manager.

Sechere explained that he himself could easily have been trapped by the earthquake, but was able to fly in time to watch a client play.

“I had to fly on Friday,” he said. “However The plane would have landed on Sunday after Christian’s game was over., so I asked for another flight. If I had the original, it would have been there too. Only God saved me. There is a god. My wife is so grateful that in the end I didn’t fly…”, Sechere tells this newspaper.