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Jetro Willems talks about drug smuggling


Jetro Willems has not played for Eintracht Frankfurt for a long time.
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Jetro Willems came to the Netherlands from Curacao as a child. So that the family had start-up capital, he smuggled drugs. Today’s football professional from Eintracht Frankfurt confesses that in a talk show.

ADefense player Jetro Willems from the Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt smuggled drugs at the age of nine. As the Dutchman now said, he wanted to provide his family with start-up capital when they emigrated from Curacao to the Netherlands. “At first my parents tried to take it with them, but they couldn’t. Then I sacrificed myself “, confessed the 26-year-old on the Dutch talk show” Andy Niet te Vermeijde “.

He hid the drugs in his pants on the one-hour flight and imported them undetected into the Netherlands, Willems continues. This was an enormous help for his family. “That was the light for us. Everything started to work. My parents, for example, found a job, ”said the left-back. He himself did not make money from selling drugs. “I didn’t want anything. In order to never end up in this situation again ”, Willems emphasized:“ I said to my parents: “Give everything you wanted to give me, my sister. I just want a ball. “In the end, the ball saved my life.”

This season, however, Willems is missing the ball. After a cruciate ligament rupture in January, the youngest national player of the Netherlands has not yet played a game. At the age of 18, one month and 26 days, he made his debut in 2012 in the “Elftal”.

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