Kevin Oghenetega Tamaraebi Bakumo-Abraham was born on the 2nd day of October 1997 in Camberwell, the United Kingdom by his parents, Mr and Mrs Tamaraebi Bakumo. His father hails from Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He migrated to Britain to set a better future for himself and his family.
Tammy’s life started ticking in the direction of football right from his early childhood time. Although, he started as a drama boy in school before engaging in football (full time).
The 6ft 3in star once said: “I’d say I was quite a good actor as well. I loved drama at school. That’s something, apart from football, that I enjoyed doing They would give us something and we had to create a scene. I remember a scene where a little boy got bullied. I was the bully because I was a big guy!”
Abraham joined Chelsea at U8 level and progressed through the clubs academy system. It was Chelsea who finally won his youth signature after a huge tussle with Arsenal which is a boyhood club to Tammy. He snubbed Arsenal to join Chelsea in a bid to follow Didier Drogba’s footsteps. He had an early encounter with the African legend on his first day of joining the club.
According to Tammy, “The first player I came across was Didier Drogba. I remember walking outside the academy and I was cold. He saw me outside and picked me up in his car and dropped me at the training ground. I was eight or nine. As soon as I got out of the car I was looking for my team-mates to say, ‘That’s Drogba!’ but I didn’t see anyone!
Tammy was part of the Chelsea youth team which recorded back to back triumphs in both the UEFA Youth League and the FA Youth Cup in 2015 and 2016.
In the 2016 edition of the UEFA Youth League, Abraham pitched in with a return of eight goals in nine matches, making him the tournament’s second-highest goal scorer. He carried his form over into the FA Youth Cup and netted the winning goal in Chelsea’s victory over Manchester City. During the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons Abraham scored 74 goals in 98 matches across all competitions for Chelsea’s various youth teams.
His form at youth level caught the attention of interim manager Guus Hiddink who invited him to train with the senior team at the back end of the 2015–16 season.
In a bid to get regular time, he took the loan decision. Tammy before enjoying loan spells with Championship side Bristol City and Swansea. During his time with the former, he won the club’s Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season awards, as well as being their top goalscorer with 23 goals in 41 appearances.
The striker is from humble family background. He was born in London to a Nigerian father and British mother who are middle-class earners and media-shy.
They are proud of their two boys (Tammy and Timmy) who are both footballers. Tammy recently bought a luxury sports car for his parents.
Indeed, The dream of every good child is to make their parent happy !!
Tammy unleashes new sports car gift to parents
He has a younger brother, Timmy, who plays in the academy system at Fulham as at the time of writing.
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