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The growth stories of countless famous football stars always involve the parks and green spaces near their homes.

Along their path of growth, they would always meet excellent coaches and parents who cherished them.

Every day, they could kick a ball carefree in the parks and green spaces, playing from morning until night. Their coaches and parents would patiently help them grow and improve, turning them into the cream of their generation.

After that, scouts would discover them. They would be selected by good clubs, receive the best youth training, stand out from the various youth teams, smoothly enter the First Team, and carve out a place for themselves.

Cristiano Ronaldo was an outstanding example of this type. Messi's path had been somewhat more difficult, but it was still much the same. Su Dong, meanwhile, had suffered considerably more misfortune—he had even foolishly been tricked into going to Portugal.

But their growth had essentially followed this same pattern.

Džeko was completely different from them.

He was born in Sarajevo in 1986. Yes, that was the place that had gone down in history for triggering a world war. Yet even several decades after the world war had ended, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sarajevo was already one of the most chaotic places in the world.

The Bosnian Civil War meant that Džeko lived under the shadow of war from childhood onward. At the time, he and his family lived in the center of Sarajevo. Shells thundered every day. Although they all survived, the experience left indelible scars, both physical and psychological.

Back then, they could eat only one meal a day. Bullet holes covered the windows, doors, and walls, while the thunder of artillery filled the air outside. Football was all that existed in his life.

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