He had it in his blood!
Son of former American basketball player Micheal Ray Richardson, ex-NBA star selected four times for the All-Star Game, midfielder Amir Richardson, who turns 22 this Wednesday, January 24, could not follow another path than that of high-level sport.
“For my father, there was no doubt that I would end up professional.
He wanted me to be in basketball but my thing is football.
He conditioned me a little, helped me.
And even if we didn't live together, we called each other on the phone every day,” says the Rémois native who grew up in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes), where his father worked at the end of his career, with his mother from Morocco. , country for which he became international (3 selections).
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“As a youth, I was in the French team,” he recalls.
I could even have worn the Italy jersey because my father played there and was naturalized, but little by little I switched to Morocco for many things.
My mother, me, there was something more.
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