Aston Villa star Amadou Onana reveals plans for career change after learning new hobby in downtime

AMADOU ONANA has been a monolithic deed with Aston Villa fans since his £50million summertime determination from Everton.

And the midfield giant, who has scored 3 goals successful 7 games for Unai Emery’s side, dreams of making a deed grounds 1 day.

The 6ft 5in Belgian planetary has learned to play the soft — and writes his ain songs, too.

In August, nether the guise of 24AM, Onana released his archetypal song — R&B track Check On Me — connected the likes of Spotify.

In Belgium helium has been called ‘the Devil with the dependable of an angel’ — referring to the nationalist team’s Red Devils nickname.

And helium has a manner consciousness to enactment old Everton pal and model  Dominic Calvert-Lewin to shame.

Ahead of tomorrow’s travel to ­Ipswich, Onana said: “I similar to try and instrumentality myself distant from football a bit.

“You person to person antithetic hobbies to assistance you unbend and euphony is 1 of mine.

“I perceive to everything.  I don’t person a circumstantial genre. I’ll perceive to rap songs, R&B, soul ... antithetic genres.

“I’m not performing publically yet but penning songs connected my ain helps maine to relax.

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“I besides play the piano, I took lessons. I wanted to effort thing different.

“In August I released my archetypal song, Check On Me, which did good connected streaming platforms.

“For present I’m focusing connected Aston Villa but erstwhile I person immoderate downtime I similar to constitute lyrics.”

Onana’s different large emotion is fashion — the 23-year-old turned up for planetary work with Belgium successful a black, pleated skirt, yellowish shoes and matching handbag.

He has besides worn a T-shirt with the slogan: ANDRE IS NOT EVEN MY NAME MATE!

That was a notation to a car-crash interrogation aft Belgium were beaten by Slovakia astatine Euro 2024 erstwhile a newsman referred to him arsenic ‘Andre’ — the sanction of Manchester United’s goalkeeper.

Onana said: “I similar to dress good — my mum would ne'er fto america permission the location looking untidy.

“I similar to chopped a dash. It doesn’t person to beryllium decorator wear.

“If it looks good, I’ll deterioration it. I don’t spend outrageous amounts connected clothes.”

One peculiar garment near a lasting content connected his team-mates —  a distinctive jacket with achromatic and yellowish daisies plastered each implicit it.

From a region it resembled scrambled eggs.

Onana confessed: “A batch of ­people said that. I don’t caput the stick.

"Whatever I deliberation is good-looking, I’ll wear, nary substance what radical think.”

In April, Aston Villa and Kaizen Gaming, the starring planetary GameTech operator, announced a caller semipermanent concern for Betano, Kaizen Gaming’s premium brand, to go the club’s caller main and front-of-shirt partner.

Betano’s sponsorship aims to complement Aston Villa’s already affirmative assemblage impact.