That mutual aid used to be vital all over their juvenile years when their folks, who’ve all the time sponsored their soccer goals, divorced.

Week dwelling with their father they have been compelled to importance their initiative at the streets of Freetown to build ends meet.

“Things were hard for us at some points,” Alusine mentioned.

“My brother and I decided to do something just to survive while going to school.

“We have been fetching H2O, placing it into jerrycans and promoting it to public in our people. We have been additionally going round accumulating impaired [scrap] iron and offered it.”

According to Alhassan, their bond has been key to their football careers – which were largely spent together until Alhassan moved to a Qatari club last year.

“We like each and every alternative such a lot that we by no means sought after to be separated,” he defined.

“When a Spanish membership, Actual Balompedica Linense, sought after to signal me in 2019 I instructed them that I’d simplest settle for their do business in at the situation that in addition they signed my dual brother.

“They told me to sign the contract and assured me that my brother would join me in Spain a few months later – which he did.”

Key moments of their careers were shared, with the brothers making their first senior appearances, top-flight bows and global debuts in the similar video games.

Years of enjoying in combination has solid an innate working out at the sound.

“I can read his mind and he can read mine,” insisted Alusine.

“When I have the ball my brother knows what I’ll do with it and what he should do, so the first person I look out for to give a pass is him.

“We’re protecting of each and every alternative too. When one is fouled by means of an opponent the alternative will get involved.

“We’ve been fighting for each other since childhood and the pitch is not an exception.”