Akolo: ‘I didn’t flee to Europe to become a footballer’
By DW
16 November 2017 |
2:53 pm
Stuttgart's Chadrac Akolo is off to a flying start in the Bundesliga. The Democratic Republic of Congo international has come a long way since arriving in Switzerland as a refugee at the age of 14.
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