AFC Leopards youth team player, Eric Aswani is keen on earning promotion to the senior team next season but believes that acting could offer him a fallback plan incase he does not make the cut in football.The midfielder has been on the limelight in recent weeks after his starring role in Pepeta Showmax, an eight-part crime series that captures the dreams and realities of the youth in Kibera, known for churning out top football players in the country.##NAJAVA_MECA_6937448##Pepeta is loosely based on the real-life story of Harun ‘Rio’ Wathari a former player who chose the path of crime and along the way so many of his friends killed by the police before he opted to reform. He played football alongside Zambia based Harambee Stars striker, Jesse Were.The Ingwe Cubs youngster plays the role of Dayo, a young footballer from Kibera who is trying to change his life and that of his family, through the only means that children from the hood know, football. He is lucky to be spotted by a European scout who finds him a club oversees but just a day before he flies out, he is caught up in a fight between gangs at an entertainment club and he is shot dead by the police who later falsely accuse him of being a criminal.The last episode of the series was aid on Thursday and asked if he would consider moving into acting, Aswani, who is still on making a career out of football said he would consider shifting into acting permanently in case things do not go his way on the pitch, his however keen on wearing AFC Leopards’ blue and white.~Junior na Dimore wanapanga MRA ya mwisho before waende ocha as advised by Kepha. ~Nduta naye amefikishwa mwisho na Biki~Grace ako Labour, Zeze Junior anazaliwa…. But.~Pastor kumbe si pastor, anatambua mambo ya lingerie na kuguza thigh.EP 8 Ni kundialala #PepetaShowmax pic.twitter.com/6KGl0wusYi— Ole Teya (@Kevin_teya) January 12, 2023 “Football is not yet fully pro in Kenya but I am still pushing nonetheless hoping that I can get that breakthrough eventually. Next season I will be targeting promotion to the senior team and make a career in football because I believe that I have what it takes to play at the highest level but if it do not work out acting is equally a good path, I enjoyed my role in Pepeta and it is a path worth pursuing,” he stated.Aswani will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Vincent Oburu, Austin Odhiambo, Zachary Njite, Eric Mbithi, Maxwell Otieno, Brian Wanyama, Moses Mukhumwa, and Victor Otieno who all earned promotions from junior team, Oburu and Odhiambo have since moved to. The former is with Zesco United of Zambia while Odhiambo crossed over to rivals, Gor Mahia.
