When Michael Baidoo he dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, he was forced to tour one European city, one square, one training pitch after another before finding someone who really believed in him. The Ghanaian midfielder then at Vision FC, a small club in his country, had one trial after another. However, the captain of Vision did not find an agreement with any of the many German companies with which he tried, then the Amrahia company found an agreement with Midtjylland and the white smoke arrived. Not only that. Baidoo also toured Holland but failed to convince even the men of the transfer and technical staff of Twente and beyond.
A life in Scandinavia
Midtjylland believes in it, at nineteen they see in the leadership of the very young attacking midfielder who today challenges Roma in the Europa League wearing the Elfsborg shirt a right talent around which to build something. Nineteen years old and already captain, there is talent, there is personality. He goes on loan to Fredericia, then to Jerv, then becomes a man in the first team but never fully, never without managing to break through. So he is forced to leave again, he stays at Jerv for a few months and then he joins Sandnes and after seven months he moves from Norway to Sweden and goes to Elfsborg. He only has one Danish championship under his belt with Midtjylland, now he is perhaps in the best moment of his career so much so that the men of the Ghana national team are thinking of calling him up for his national team debut.
False news
Maturity comes late, this season the Elfsborg number 10 is in the best moment of his career. Thanks to the tactical ideas of Oscar Hiljemark, a thirty-two-year-old recent acquaintance of our football with boots on his feet and now manager of the Swedes. 10 goals and 4 assists, he is Elfsborg’s best of the season and perhaps the most dangerous man for Ivan Juric’s team. It’s never too late to become a technical leader.