BBC Sport meets Efe Obada, the British NFL star who was abandoned on London's streets with his sister at the age of 10.
"Apparently if you want to book it you have to say: 'The Efe Obada room please.' That's really cool.Efe Obada is joking about the meeting room we are about to enter at the NFL's UK headquarters in central London.
The most open he has been on the subject was in a blog on the Carolina Panthers website in August 2017. Writing there, he said he and his sister were brought over"by a stranger who was supposed to look after us - they did not". Obada's sister was with him throughout their time in foster care and they remain close, but he refuses to share anything more about her. It's a similar story with his wife -"his rock". He has said they met in London and that she"She's for me," is Obada's clear response to that inquiry. The nature of his relationship with his mother now is another unknown.
"It's nice to be wanted and to feel like you are needed. I feel like I can help this team and they make me feel that way, that I'm important to them."The established route is through the incredibly competitive US collegiate system in which just 1.6% of the player pool actually make it to the big time.
"An opportunity like being in the NFL is something that you are going to have to hold on to as long as you can, because I know that once that opportunity is gone I am back in the warehouse doing 9-5.
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