• Boma didn’t find it funny, when he flashed back and narrated his ordeal with depression after injury ended his football career.
It seems as though, Boma was not telling lies, in the Big Brother Naija House, when he told his colleagues that he pursued a football career before coming for the show.
In a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, the former Shine Ya Eye contestant, and reality television star, opened up on how a mere, but a very serious injury ended his football career.
Boma mentioned that after he suffered ankle injury, that was the end of the road in the football career for him.
He had to leave Scotland, and Belgium back to United States, to see what more, life has to offer, even though throughout those periods, he fought tirelessly with depression, because everything was like the world has ended for him.
It was when he got back to the United States that one of his friends encouraged and stood out for him, advising him never to give up, because he has so many people in Nigeria under his care.
Boma said, “I had like a small injury I was nursing. No one touched me, I just kicked the floor. I don’t get injuries, like if I’ll get injured maybe muscular injuries at the gym or something.
“I don’t know where that came from. I don’t know what happened, because I don’t get injuries. If I will get injury, may be I will injure myself, may be muscular injury.
“I was going to kick the ball then I kicked the floor. It was like right here (points at his ankle). Like how would you kick the floor? I kicked the floor and that muscle, that was it.
“So, they injected me when I was in Scotland, they injected that spot, because I have to continue, because I’m already here, so, I have to be strong.
“The pain was like right here, (points at his ankle again). Even if you’re climbing a step, you’ll feel it, even if you’re riding a bike, you’ll feel it. That injury never left. I tried that week I could not. All my joints, I couldn’t even run well, I couldn’t even kick the ball. Everybody was disappointed. It wasn’t my fault.
“That led me into serious heavy depression. It was just like I’ve tried everything possible. And I’m now right here. This is it. I still get message in my inbox saying, I wouldn’t believe you won’t be a footballer, after everything you did. I was like, God has better plans.
“So, that injury was a career-ending injury. That was it for me. So, I packed my bags, left Scotland and went back to Belgium, packed my other bags, and I was back in the US, 2017. So, that was the end for me, March 8, 2017, I moved back to the US, and that was the end of the football career.
“It led me into depression. My depression was bad, I’ll wake up and I’ll just sit down on the floor and I’m not moving, never moved. I didn’t want to do nothing. My guy was like, bro, you can’t be living like this, there are people in Nigeria that need to eat.
“Your mama and people depending on you, they need to eat. So, pick up yourself. You need to push. You can’t be living like this, what has gone has gone. You need to get back into it. That was a very defining moment in my life.”
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