The full name of Watford’s record signing is Isaac Success Ajayi but he has come to believe that Success is key, which is why that is what it says on the back of his shirt. “Yes, it inspires me,” he explains. “I didn’t even know the meaning of the name, I was just answering to it until I noticed this name is something that was pushing me forward in my career. So I appreciate the name so much and appreciate my mum for giving it to me. It has helped a lot.”
It is clear that this is an exceptionally driven 20-year-old. Less than four years ago he was unknown outside his home town, Benin City in southern Nigeria, where he and his friends were sometimes so hungry that they used to roam the streets looking for weddings or other ceremonies into which they could sneak to pinch food. “That’s true,” he says. “It was a bit crazy but thank God we’re past that and in a different stage now. In Africa there are a lot of struggles. We just have to fight and believe that what we’re doing will make a way for us some day. So that was it.”
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