A boxer born in Cameroon and with enormous conditions he will seek to be in the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesbut the most striking thing is that it has the unusual name of Junior Mouths.
It is that, according to what was explained, his father watched all the matches of Mouth on TV, he became a fan, and decided to baptize it with that same name, in a country where obviously there are no taboos with names.
The issue is that mouthsafter unsuccessfully trying to represent Spain -where he had emigrated- will finally represent Cameroonhis country of birth, looking for a place in the Olympic event.
An impressive life story
The 24-year-old Cameroonian had to cross half the African continent until he could reach the border with Spain, on a journey it took him 5 years. And when he got there and did not have the documentation to enter the Iberian country, he had to jump over the fence in Ceutato be able to enter illegally in search of a better future.
“I didn’t go to school, but I learned the trade of welding and at the age of 10 I had a job. A friend started talking to me about life in Spain and decided to go with him. I didn’t even know it was a country where white people lived,” said the now athlete who dreams of Olympic gold.
“My father used to watch the games a lot. Boca JuniorsThat’s why he called me that. As a child he played soccer in the street, but I never thought of more. He didn’t play sports, but everything changed in the center where I spent the first six months in Ceuta. They gave us food and bed there, but I needed to do something else. So I started running so I could do marathons,” she explained.
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In the Iberian Peninsula the young athlete began to practice boxing to get away from drugs and he did so well that he managed to win a title.
The young man participated in 2023 Spanish Championship as a heavyweight member of the Madrid National Team, but although he won the tournament, finishing all his fights before the limit, he could not show the Spanish champion belt because he does not have the nationality of that country.
Taking advantage of the fact that the tournament was in Melilla visited the fence that separates Spain with Morocco: “I did it to remember where I come from and the friends who died there without fulfilling their dream,” he explained.
But the championship Spain caused me to receive a call from Cameroon: “They called me from the federation of my country. They wanted me to represent the country in the African Championship,” he expressed.
Finally, mouthsthe boxer with the name of the Argentine soccer team, will represent Cameroon in the pre-Olympic in September.
Source: Ambito
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