the mirror out in England Europe has come out and described it as disgustingly outrageous showbo in football history disgusting iagree I'm quite shocked that so if you're wondering what the hell you just saw that is Kazi Flava African street football show boating wherever you want to call it and the point is to beat your opponent in the most humiliating way imaginable and if you're thinking oh no one could get away with that in Europe you're very much wrong half of the clips you've just seen were taken straight from Premier League matches this is Yanik Basi
the man who brought African show boting to England the fenders just didn't know what to do with him half the time they were left dumbfounded trying to figure out what the hell you just stun the fans couldn't believe their eyes either they just kept shanting are you sure he went Brazilian before tragedy struck he was so good people used to joke that he should be the first player to get six star skill moves on FIFA and at he speak he became the second most expensive African player of all time look if you think Jamie vardy
was a miracle let me tell you this guy wasn't far off despite growing up in England by the time he turned 16 he had never even stepped foot into an academy his real dream was to become a rapper it was just that one day according to Basi himself he was watching an on the TV and thought to himself well I guess I could give it a try but after only four months trying out for an Academy he just got bed of it instead he gave up on all of that and went straight to playing for
his local team in the E tier of English football where they paid him2 per match and gave him a free burger for every goal he scored as you may imagine soon balasi was giving up again the plan was to go work for his girlfriend's father as a carpenter after all realistically there were zero chances he'd ever make it except for one thing you see though vas himself was actually born in France and not Congo when he moved to England with his parents at 7 months of age his African cousins came along and well let's just
say this thing has to be genetic because three of them went pro and they were serious ballers in fact you know L Mana luua from Newcastle yeah that's his cousin so what happened then was pretty lucky just as bolasi prepared to join the workforce one of his cousins friends got injured right after joining a team in Malta called floriana so in an effort to get Basi to give football another chance and with a team looking for a temporary replacement his cousin asked for a few favors got him a trial there and somehow it worked but
really his luck didn't end there once he was alone playing in Malta Basi didn't really know what to do with his free time I mean he clearly gets bored easily but since he had always known how to edit from back when he made rap music videos for himself he started recording his matches and posting compilations of his own highlights on YouTube and I kid you not one day sent those links to his cousin's agent the guy passed them around and his talent must have been glaringly obvious because out of nowhere yet clubs from all over
Europe coming for him offenheim stormr ler pouth Argy it was unbelievable in the end he picked Plymouth because he just wanted to go back home and after all back then they were doing better than ler but once at the club it was immediately clear they did not believe yet had what it took to slide right into a championship team so they kept trying to send him on loan and it was harder than you may have expected first came a trial at Denham in the fourth tier but they sent him back and with a transfer window
coming to a close without him being able to find a proper Club irony struck and he ended up going on a six-month loan precisely to rush in in diamonds the non- league I guess you could say amateur Club was the academy he had given up on a few years earlier thankfully when the Winter Market came around he managed to get himself a moved to Barnett and once there not only did he start performing a lot better but he was lucky enough that Tony finnean an ex Crystal Palace player turned agent was on a stand's watching
and once that match was over he went up to his parents and told him I can make your son a premier league player in three years only a few months later bolasi was already getting back from his loan and even though pouth would end up not just getting relegated but going bankrupt by then he had made enough of a name for himself that he managed to quickly s step to Bristol City before the ship sank being signed for only 10,000 with their assistant manager CL claiming that it is unbelievable that a player like palasi was
available at this price this is a once in A- lifetime opportunity and he wasn't wrong eight months later with his team about to succumb in their relegation Showdown against Coventry it was Bazi who came on late and score the goal that them near saved the club and so once the season was over Not only was he voted the club's young player of the year but he achieved all of that while legendary scouting at the time Crystal Palace manager douge fredman watched him close ly and the result was simple only a year after arriving at bristle
for about the value of a used Honda Civic he was being valed at half a million pounds and now all he had to do was get Palace back to the Premier League when he arrived at the club they were sitting bottom of the table with three defeats in of first three league matches the fans were already preparing for a crisis everyone could see how much they depended on Wilfred zaha so every manager would put trade Defenders on him and he was done but well one of the first things freed asked palasi was whether he thought
he could be as good as zaha and he replied I'll be better by October not only were Palace far from the bottom of the table but with bolasi and zaha scrambling the brains of every Defender who came in their way they were already in the top four underweight the promotion playoffs as bolasi himself said on my first season nobody knew about me every Defender concentrated on zaha so I was always free to do something special for the rest of the year he gave the club everything he had it seemed nothing could stop him not when
douge fredman controversially left in the middle of the Season not when the congales national team called him up even then he said the only thing that mattered was getting Palace back to the top and when the promotional playoff semi-finals did come with Palace 160 minutes into the tie and still without a goal it was bazu pulled off some magic to put them in the final but somehow when the day came he wasn't on a starting 11 he had sacrificed everything for that moment he had helped him start palace's second Golden Era hell he was on
a championships Team of the Year and still no matter what when they won he was there with a smile on his face celebrating arm in arm with zaha that's just the kind of guy he was he didn't just bring the flare he had the work rate and mentality to go along with it there was only one problem he couldn't score as palace's assistant manager said every game he'd go past three or four players at PACE using the most wonderful skills but when it was time to shoot he would over hit it and the ball would
fly 6 ft above the bar just as it was becoming more and more worrying that Bazi El any formal Academy training the next year he went to full season without scoring this would have been unacceptable for any other Premier League forward but when it came to Basi it didn't matter that year even with zaha leaving to United just as the club took the step up to the Top Flight Basi completely took over the team's creative side and led them to one of their greatest ever Seasons not just managing to survive relegation for the first time
in the Premier League era but almost clutching at top 10 finish with every match it became more and more clear that no defender in the world could stop him with manager Tony pulis at one point claiming that fasi smashed skyle Walker so bad he forced redn to sub him off and change his tactics but still no match That season could compare to the one that became known as Kristan buul picture this second to last match of the Season Liverpool need to beat Palace by as many goals as possible if they want have a chance at
the title with 12 minutes left on the clock they're up by three goals and suddenly it started Damen Delaney gets the first then bolasi darts up in the Counterattack and assists white Gale who goes on to level the match 2 minutes later out of the 12,000 matches in the Premier League only 24 times had the team come back from three goals behind and on this one specifically as the New York Times wrote Basi was front and center Liverpool's right back Glen Johnson was humiliated by him so many times that that night the pundits criticized him
so harshly he ended up having a public meltdown on Twitter that's the effect bason Defenders it was a different breed they didn't even know how to react as alen party would go on to say other clubs would have tried to change bolasi but we recognize he was a Maverick and trusted him that's why he improved so much in just a few years his uniqueness is what makes him special and soon that will be evident to everyone else the next year even with zaha back from United it seemed the only time Palace played well was when
bolasi was on his day 10 matches in they had only won two and even one of those was thanks to a Basi winner but the next match is Palace once again trail behind against Liverpool Basi popped off not just allowing Dwight Gale to score is his 30 yard shot rebounded off the post but then flicking a sombrero over Len and assisting the second as Palace took a 3 to1 win against one of the biggest teams in the country to escape the relegation Zone and just as the more casual Premier Le fans began questioning whether he
had done it on purpose or if you had just gotten lucky just a month later against Tottenham with sadwin Erikson pinning him against the corner in one motion he pulled off a roulette and flicked the ball over them sending every fan into a frenzy replaying the clip over and over again trying to figure out how to do it only for one of his teammates to tell the press that he's done crazier things in training every day it's like watching street football but as much as everyone wanted more then bolasi was called up for his first
ever African Cup of Nations and this time he wasn't going to say no right on the first match he scored equalizer to clutch the draw but once they found themselves 62 minutes deep into the quarterfinals losing to Neil precisely to their Rivals well the other Congo turning that game around meant everything to the fans and so Basi showed up yet again assisting their first goal and jump starting the comeback that eventually allowed the Democratic Republic of Congo to take the bronze medal their best finish since they had won the competition 47 years earlier and guess
what once the team of the tournament came out aside from their goalkeeper bolasi was the only congales player to make the list and if it seemed things couldn't get much better than on his first game back in the Premier League he came in late against Newcastle to assist equalizer then pulled off two incredible assists versus QPR but nothing compared to what he did against Sunderland after a goalless first half Midway through the match Alan parthu decided to try out playing balasi in a more Central role and damn 3 minutes and he was already assisting Glenn
Murray 2 minutes after that he had scored his first with a true Striker finish in the very next attack he loved the keeper to score another and only 11 minutes after the first goal he completed his hattick by dribbling the keeper and then a Defender before smacking it into the open net as he ran to celebrate the fans began chanting it's like we're watching Brazil and one thing is sure that looked nothing like Crystal Palace not a single one of their players that ever scored the hatrick in the Premier League let alone one of the
fastest in its history I can't even imagine what would haveen happened that party not sub all as off so soon after his third goal but regardless after ruining Jed's last ever match at anfield beating Liverpool three to one yet again this time getting another assist and hitting the post and at one point even sweeping the ground with his hand before going past the Y love Ren I'm guessing they thought to themselves well if we can't beat him we might as well join him and with a 25-year-old leading the league in successful take on alongside Hazard
Sanchez cotin and Sterling they joined Tottenham in the chase for signing putting down 20 million only for partu to tell the press that he'd only sell him for 40 to 60 million knowing them well that at the time that would have made him the most expensive player in the League's history in other words he wanted to keep him around and for a good reason the next season he began experimenting with getting Basi back in that Central role and the results were stunning even though from October to New Year's Basi would not get on the score
sheet in any of the games he played in the wing on the three occasions in which he played him in the center he yet again scored as they beat Liverpool then got a brace against Newcastle and assisted their only goal versus Southampton but just as everyone began wondering if the final form of bolasi had been unlocked he tore the muscle of his GF and over those two months without him the same team that had been sitting just below the top five went completely winless there was no doubt Basi was the heart and soul of that
Squad and once he was back knowing that any hope of finishing in the top seven was lost I guess they realized there was only one other way to make history by Leading the club to Europe for the first time ever so he gave everything in the FA Cup winning a penalty with four minutes left in a goal as quarterfinal and then scoring the opener in the semi lead Palace to the final for only the second time in their history the day of the match it all seemed straight out of a fairy tale growing up palasi
could see Wembley's Stadium straight from his bedroom window the date of the final coincided perfectly with the birthday of his mom who still lived in that same house only a few blocks away but even though they pushed united into extra time even though it seemed like Destiny in the end they lost no matter what to transfer offers kept coming in Tottenham especially seemed to be all over him but with Basi being an Arsenal fan he didn't really like that idea and so with billionaire farad moshiri buying Everton and handing Ronald k a 100 million pound
transfer budgets he completely hijacked the transfer offering Palace a deal worth £35 million not just making Bazi Everton's alltime record signing or polies biggest ever sale but the second most expensive African player of all time just 1 million pound shy of Sadi om Mane which just moved to Liverpool all less than 10 years since he had been playing for 20 pounds a game and when confronted by a reporter with the fans worry that he turned out to be yet another disappointing signing after the likes of Schneider Lin Clen and iobi he replied I know I
am worth it but in reality bolasi would turn out to be one of Everton's worst ever signings to start off everything seemed incredible bolasi and Lukaku were completely in tune with each other they even spoke the same congales dialect so Defenders couldn't even understand what they said to each other Bolas himself even went on an uncharacteristic run of five goal contributions in just seven starts but then they played United and in a duel with Anthony martial Basi didn't just rupture his ACL he ruptured his Mancus as well and that's what you call a career Ender
even after 11 months out Basi felt like he was being rushed back into to the pitch claiming that Everton's medical staff hadn't taken proper care of him that even though he stayed extra hours at their grounds every day for over a year when his old Crystal Palace physio examined him he was shocked at how weak his knee still was and with marus Silva arriving and bringing with him new records signing Rish charison Basi was replaced and he just couldn't accept that even with Lester trying to bring him in to replace mahz and palis trying to
work out a comeback he insisted on going on loan hoping he could earn back his place at Everson first there was V an Ender L sporting in middlesbro towards the end he even stayed with under 23s for 6 months but eventually had to leave the club and at that point between wages and his transfer fee had cost him about1 million for every game he had played it seemed completely hopeless but now 3 years later after stin in Turkey second year in two months at swans paasi signed for Chris Yuma in Brazil the man with all
the faks and tricks left for the land of beautiful football and only a few weeks ago he led the club to an historic Coral went over vashu the GMA he scared the assist twice he attempted a bicycle kick and did whatever this was suddenly once more the fans were chanting are you sure you ain't Brazilian I really think that balasi may have finally found a home
