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THE grieving family of fallen footballer Akeem Adams has asked that his memory be kept alive by erecting a statue in his likeness in his hometown Point Fortin.

Adams, 22, of Salazar Trace, Point Fortin, was described yesterday as a village favourite adored by all, and who was passionate about the sport that led him to win a European footballing contract.

Adams died on Monday of a massive stroke at a hospital in Hungary, four months after he suffered a massive heart attack.

George Dick, Adams’s uncle, said he was always a “respectful young man with great potential”.

Dick said at the time when Adams’s family was at its lowest, no one, not a single Government minister made representation to assist his mother, Ancilla Adams, to be at her son’s bedside.

Dick said he was sure everybody will be “running to family now to express their sorrows”.

He added: “Knowing that he (Adams) played national football and represented his country, no one, no minister came to assist. It was the football team that funded the travel of Adams’s mother and brother to Hungary. I think if anything is to be done to remember him (Adams) they can put a statue at Dunlop roundabout. Let it be somewhere in Point Fortin.”

Dick said Adams was totally committed to football, and had a close relationship with young men from the village. He said Adams’s mother and brother appeared to be holding up well, when he last spoke with them.

Adams’s former teammate and friend, Kevon Rouse, said the deceased Soca Warrior always had the ambition to play international football, and worked hard at it.

He said he would see Adams running for miles, riding his bike and continued to set standards for himself in preparation for this career.

Adams’s cousin, Kafi Adams, also remembered him for his kind and respectable ways.

She said the family was excited when they thought he was on the road to recovery.

She said: “We had planned to hire a maxi to go to the airport and welcome him home. We weren’t expecting this at all to happen. This (any heart ailment) has never run in the family before”.

Adams’s father died three years ago from an undisclosed illness, and a cousin, Akil Adams, was murdered in Sea Lots last January.