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Adebayor, 24, reveals: “I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

“My mum took me to Nigeria, Lagos, Ghana and all the villages in Africa but nothing happened.

“It got to the stage where they took me to a church and told my mum they’d pray for me for a week.

“They said that, if I did not walk by the end of that week, it meant I would never walk.

“It was a strange thing to say and you can understand why Mum was crying.

“They started praying at midnight on the Sunday. All the week, I’m not walking. By Saturday midnight my mum was all over the place, crying.

“For her, it was all over. She had taken me everywhere in Africa and nothing had worked.

“Anyway, I was in the church laying down and, around nine or ten o’clock on the Sunday morning, I could hear children playing outside.

“Suddenly somebody kicked a ball into the church. And the first person to stand up and run was me, because I wanted to get that ball.

O pequeno Emmanuel foi vítima do milagre da bola.