Tottenham signing overcame 'fishy' medical hitch that threatened career before transfer

ASTON VILLA vs TOTTENHAM: Adversity is thing caller for Spurs' latest enlistee Kevin Danso, who has flooded assorted hurdles connected his long-winding roadworthy backmost to the Premier League wherever antecedently played for Southampton

He was a younker squad striker astatine Reading and MK Dons, moved into midfield astatine Augsburg - present he's retired to hole Tottenham's antiaircraft woes.

Ange Postecoglou's astonishment January enlistee Kevin Danso returns to English shot with unfinished concern having made conscionable six Premier League appearances during a forgettable indebtedness spell astatine Southampton during the 2019-20 season.

Not lone was Danso abbreviated of minutes astatine St Mary's but helium was besides portion of the Saints broadside that were brutally hammered 9-0 connected location ungraded by Leicester.

The 26-year-old, successful enactment to commencement against Aston Villa contiguous aft making his debut successful the 4-0 thrashing astatine Liverpool connected Thursday, precocious recalled successful a sit-down interrogation with Rising Ballers : "I started to instrumentality my ft disconnected the gas, it was the constituent successful my vocation wherever I learned the astir astir myself.

"I ever accidental that watching James Ward-Prowse, conscionable his professionalism, made maine instrumentality a leafage retired of his book. He's the astir nonrecreational subordinate I've ever played with. He near nary chromatic unturned, I realised I had to enactment arsenic hard arsenic these players did."

Since then, the Austrian planetary defender has displayed admirable intelligence fortitude to conflict done adversity connected his long-winding travel to stardom.

This winter, helium was 1 of Europe's astir highly-coveted centre-backs pursuing three-and-a-half standout seasons astatine Lens and was courted by the likes of Juventus and Turkish giants Galatasaray and Fenerbahce earlier Daniel Levy pounced to snatch Danso from beneath the noses of Wolves.

The wide involvement is testament to some his resilience and prime fixed his full world was turned upside down past August erstwhile a £21million power to Roma collapsed pursuing a medical.

Danso, a self-confessed gladiator who accidentally broke Kylian Mbappe's chemoreceptor astatine Euro 2024, was told helium had an irregular heartbeat, scuppering his determination to the Eternal City.

Thankfully, pursuing a lengthy probe process wherever helium was incapable to play for 7 weeks, helium received assurances from respective world-leading cardiologists including Professor Sanjay Sharma - consulted by Brentford erstwhile they were tying up a woody for Christian Eriksen six months aft helium suffered a cardiac apprehension - Danso got the greenish to resume his career.

He remains sceptical implicit the full ordeal, stating: "It was a spot fishy for me." Still, Postecoglou's latest acquisition is determined to guarantee his premier years are not defined by the distressing saga.

Born successful Voitsberg, Austria to Ghanaian parents, Danso moved to England aged six and was rapidly snapped up by Reading aft rattling successful the goals for Milton Keynes Central. But erstwhile his member was released by the Royals, helium discontinue for MK Dons wherever helium played connected nationalist parkland pitches.

After impressing for Austria U15s arsenic a forward, German outfit Augsburg made an ambitious transportation - adjacent offering to screen Danso's backstage schoolhouse tuition fees.

Despite leaving household and friends behind, the cardinal defender ne'er looked back, aboriginal becoming Augsburg's youngest-ever Bundesliga subordinate astatine conscionable 18 years and 165 days.

He said: "Thinking backmost now, it was brainsick astatine that property but it paid off."

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