There is no place like home. Wherever you go, wherever you may live, make money or spend it – there is that place that you always long to return to. For Borussia Monchengladbach’s star striker Breel Embolo – it’s Yaounde.After enjoying an excellent Euro 2020 tournament with Switzerland, the country he chose to play for, Embolo took a well-deserved break. With the dramatic penalty shoot-out win over France and the heartbreak of the quarter-final defeat at the hands of Spain, the match that’s also seen him pick up a thigh injury, Breel arrived to Stade Abega in his hometown to encourage the Esperance Football Club youngsters.Cameroonian born Swiss International Breel Embolo is in Cameroon. He was spotted watching a football game in Yaounde. pic.twitter.com/9IEaso7XQG— E-KWAT TV (@EkwatTV) July 17, 2021 Even though he’s been living in Europe for most of his life, Embolo told Bundesliga website that he still enjoys going to the country of his birth.”I have some small memories. I can remember a few people because I’m in touch with my family and friends. It all comes back quite quickly when I go there, but it isn’t as if I know where everything is. It takes some time. My father still lives there, and I have another family there too, so I’m still very closely connected to my homeland.”#Camerún 🇨🇲 Breel Embolo, jugador del seleccionado suizo 🇨🇭 en la última Euro, está pasando unos días en su país natal pic.twitter.com/kS45XU2GVo— Pancho Jáuregui (@sportingafrica) July 18, 2021 Embolo was born on 14 February 1997 in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde. His parents separated when he was young, and when he was five, his Peru-born mother moved to France to attend school. Whilst there, she met her future husband, a Swiss national, then the following year, the family moved to Basel in Switzerland. Breel was naturalised in December 2014 and has since taken to life in his second homeland.”When you arrive in a completely different country as a boy, it takes time to learn the language and to understand the mentality. That was the biggest challenge: adopting the mentality. I feel like I did that quite well. I think I’m probably 60 or 70 per cent Swiss now, even more so than I’m African.” Cameroonian born Swizz International Breel Embolo is back in Yaounde for holidays and visited the Esperance FC Academy in Yaounde yesterday. He plays for the Switzerland National team but definitely can’t wave home away completely. #swizz #switzerland #nationality #football pic.twitter.com/dICQRokkLU— Kosi_foottalk (@Kosi_foottalk) July 17, 2021 Life may take you a long way from where you started, but it’s important to remember where you’d come from. Breel Embolo never forgot his African roots.
