Dapo Mebude, a promising young footballer, recounts his harrowing car crash experience and shares his journey through the ranks at Rangers.
It's not often you almost die. Dapo Mebude was being billed as one of the next big things in Scottish football, had risen through the Rangers youth ranks alongside Billy Gilmour and Nathan Patterson and had wowed Steven Gerrard. 'Something hit my tyre,' the 23-year-old forward, now at Dunfermline, recalled. 'My car just spun off the road. Then I hit a tree.The car crash that almost ended Mebude's young life happened in January of this year. At the time, he was playing for Belgian club Oostende.
The accident happened en route to a match. 'Because I am so close to my family, I felt worse for them,' Mebude told BBC Scotland. 'They had to live it every day. They were coming in and out of the hospital to see if I was able to wake up. 'I broke my ribs and I had a contusion, which is like bruising around my heart. When I woke up, they were telling me I was lucky to be alive. 'It was a terrible experience, but it brought me closer to everyone as well. My family, my girlfriend, my daughter - they really played a big part in helping me get out of it.'Mebude was born and grew up in London. At the age of 10, his family made the move to Glasgow, where his football talent was spotted early. Growing up in Govan, he started training with Rangers and became part of the Scottish FA performance group. As a boyhood Liverpool fan who modelled his game on England winger Raheem Sterling, he could barely believe his luck when Anfield great Steven Gerrard strode through the door as manager at Ibrox. 'Going through the age groups, I was doing well,' Mebude said. 'I would always play a couple of years up.'Steven Gerrard had just come in at the time. He was at the game and the next day I trained with the first team. It was surreal.'However, it was always going to be tough for the teenager to force his way ahead of the likes of Alfredo Morelos and Jermain Defoe in the pecking orde
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