From Tearing Up The Euros 2020 To Languishing IN A Dubai Prison: The Story Of Promes

So many footballers started excellently but didn’t end well or are not where they are supposed to be if they had remained consistent with the form and discipline they began with. This story is about a young Dutch professional footballer who was wanted by big European clubs like Liverpool and Man United before things went wrong for him.

Let’s take it back to 2017 when Quincy Promes was on fire and in the form of his life. That season, he helped Spartak Moscow win the Russian title and was named Russia’s footballer of the year. He then gets a 15 million pound move to Ajax, where the problem started for the Amsterdam-born prodigy.

During a family party, Promes learnt that his cousin stole a 3K euro necklace from his aunt; this provoked him to the extent that he grabbed a knife and repeatedly stabbed his cousin in the knee. The cousin almost died from the stabbing if not for the intervention of Promes’s father, who stood in front of him. Later that day, Promes phones his dada and asks, “Why did you jump in front of him? You save his life, and I would have killed him.

My loyalty is to my aunt; whoever steals from her, I will kill”. One thing he didn’t know was the police were recording those calls.

After some months, he’s arrested over the stabbing, and as criminal charges loom, he makes a move back to Spartak Moscow without really playing much for Ajax. The case was suspended since Russia has no extradition treaty with the Netherlands.

Then, during the Euros 2020, which was hosted in 2021 across England, Denmark, and Hungary, Dutch national team coach Frank De Boer didn’t mind that Promes had an ongoing attempted murder case when he called the stabbing striker to the squad that represented the Netherlands in the Euros. Quincy Promes dropped stellar performances throughout the matches he played for the Dutch team, attracting the likes of Liverpool and Man United, who wanted his signature.

Things got worse for Quincy Promes when he was caught alongside his accomplice smuggling 1,363 kg of cocaine by boat and disguising the drugs as sea salt. The cops seized the stash of 65 million pounds and charged the striker. Promes got a total of 7 years of jail time and was put in the notorious Al Aweer prison, where he was forced to share a freezing cell with 25 others.

However he was released on bail a few weeks ago, but his once-promising football career has taken a nosedive. He now plays for a lower-division team in Dubai.