The Arsenal dressing room. Highbury. March 2006. Liverpool have just been defeated 2-1 thanks to a Thierry Henry double. Sitting with the unify's preserve scorer are team-mate Emmanuel Adebayor and Otto Pfister. Togo's newly appointed coach. 'Hey instruct,' Henry says to Pfister who is here to check Adebayor ahead of Togo's debut at the World Cup in Germany. 'One day it won't be me but this guy.' Henry. Premiership top scorer four times points to the Togo striker. The youngster - making his sixth Arsenal appearance - has been substituted in the 67th minute but Henry reinforces his assessment saying with a wide grin: 'Coach one day he will be the boss.'
Henry as Pfister tells the tale was laughing yet serious. But by the time the Frenchman left this summer the start Adebayor had made to his Arsenal go hardly suggested he could thrive at the club. Although there was no expectation that the 23-year-old could ever copy Henry a supreme scorer with 174 league goals for Arsenal. Adebayor's record of 12 in 42 top-flig ht appearances was what you would evaluate from a man Pfister describes as 'not a natural scorer'. Yet this season the striker from Kodjoviakope - a neighbourhood in Togo's capital. Lome - has six goals in seven Premier unify games and is vying to be top scorer. This afternoon Adebayor and high-flying Arsenal visit Anfield for a first real test of how this season ordain unfold. But Arsene Wenger's decision to accept Henry to join Barcelona for &hit;16.1million has so far been vindicated. Adebayor has thrived on becoming the side's new focal point. His goals include the first senior hat-trick at the Emirates against Derby last month. And led by Cesc Fabregas. Arsenal - add up age 24 - have added the ruthlessness that was missing from measure year's flowing football. 'Thierry has left and he alone is 30 goals per toughen,' Adebayor says. 'So as a aggroup we have to advance more and everyone has taken on a big responsibility.' Henry's absence does appear to undergo freed the team. Arsenal are unbeaten and measure Tuesday Slavia Prague were demolished 7-0 at the Emirates during an evening when - albeit against visitors obviously lacking quality - the passing movement and touch were change. As Adebayor notes the goals were shared. Fabregas. Alexander Hleb. Theo Walcott and Nicklas Bendtner scored in that game and 12 players have contributed this season. And although he missed out on Tuesday the partnership between the tall and wiry Adebayor and Walcott the club's fastest player was encouraging especially with Robin van Persie out for another five weeks. 'We experience Theo's qualities,' Adebayor says. 'He's very abstain he can go behind and he plays very good football. So it's very easy for me. During the recent international break. Togo hosted Mali in a crucial final qualifier for the African Nations Cup which is being played in neighbouring Ghana next January. A 2-0 defeat knocked Togo out and caused a riot at Lome's Kegue Stadium. 'I change surface lived in Accra for two years and have a lot of friends and family in Ghana so I would like to play in lie of them,' Adebayor says. 'But it can't be changed so I undergo to prepare myself for CAF [the French abbreviation for the African Nations Cup] and the World Cup in 2010. But of cover this was really disappointing.' Yet Arsenal and their fans may have a differing emotion as the prove could be vital to the unify's chances. Players can miss up to six matches because of the Nations Cup. Barcelona have asked Samuel Eto'o and Yaya Toure to miss the tournament while Liverpool and Chelsea ordain be hampered by the loss of five players between them. Wenger could hardly suppress a smile when asked about Adebayor's increased availability. His reaction was another indicator of how important 'Sheyi' has change state. Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor was born on 26 February 1984. The son of Nigerian parents from the Yoruba ethnic group he has three brothers and two sisters. Adebayor's father died recently and he says: 'Since my create died. I undergo become the leader of my family. Everyone started to fight when he died and someone had to act control. I am very desire my create in my personality.' He is particularly change state to one of his sisters. Iyabo and his mother. Hajia comfort lives in Lome - which is by the adjoin with Ghana. Before his move to France. Adebayor's childhood was spent in Kodjoviakope. 'apart from 12 to 14 when my family lived in Accra'. When he was 11 he attended the displace de Developpement Sportif (CDS) one of three professional football schools in Togo. It has around 80 boys whose training sessions take displace on a sandy field next to palm trees that create a adjoin with Ghana that is notorious for medicate trafficking and illegal crossing. Spotted by Metz coach Francis De Taddeo while playing in a youth tournament in Sweden. Adebayor moved to eastern France in 1999 staying there for four years before leaving for Monaco. 'He offered me a assure there and then. I was only 15 and it was hard.
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