In an interesting interview in El Correo Gallego, the Unicaja channel Viny Okouo reviews his career until he reached the Obradoirthat his father put order.
"I did not play basketball, I was judo, I was trying to make boxing too, and a friend of my father came and said: fuck, your son is high, there is a campus there from Serge Ibaka and you have to take him, maybe he has a chanceto go to Europe to study and play basketball.I went and did not know anything, or play, or throw away, I just did mates, "said Okouo, who tells how the Unicaja noticed:" They saw me with a photo that Romaric Belemene took me when he returned to the Congo on vacation.Then they called my father and spoke.They had to send me an invitation to make me a scholarship to go to Malaga to study and play basketball.I had only been on this campus, it was when my father started buying me shoes and balls but I escaped myself.I told my father: well I'm...And then I went with my classmates.I arrived in Malaga without doing anything, not knowing how to throw or throw.Paco Alonso was my first coach and everything started.I was 15 years old.I was happy because I was going to travel with my father, he was with me to accompany me.When he left, he became very hard, sometimes he cried in the room because he didn't speak Spanish.I was trying to help Romaric because we were in the same team, the coaches spoke but I didn't understand much, it was very difficult.And at school, I don't even tell you ".
He also tells moments when he changed his career in Malaga."I played in Leb Gold and there was a Romanian, Cristian Uta, who played only junior.The following year we went down to Leb Plata with clinics, he was uploaded to ACB and me: fuck, he was in Junior, I in Leb Gold and they climb him and not me!I saw it unfair.He said: nothing, when I return to train with us I have to kill him to teach people that I can be there, not only he.From there I started working and working, when he arrived he did not let him play, it was like a competition.I played very well in Leb Plata and they had to climb because many people called, from the University of Duke, the United States coach (Mike Krzyzewski, Coach K).I didn't know anything, I knew later because many people told me that they were calling me.That's why Malaga gave me the ACB professional contract, "he recalls.
“I went crazy, signed the contract and went to buy expensive things, branded.My first year I had nothing left, and then my father had to call and say: but what uncle what does he do with money?Because in my next contract I had to send the money there to do business and things at home ”.
"They wanted to throw a pivot because he didn't like Plaza, and after a LEB training he called me the president of the clinics to talk to me: Look, Viny, do you know that you are going to sign for the ACB of Malaga? And me: FuckWhat do you say? Nor of Coña.I didn't expect it, I saw it very difficult, I thought I had no level to be there.No, you're joking.Suddenly my agent calls me and he tells me: Well, Viny, you have to go to sign the contract because the coach loves you, you will leave the Leb team and you have to go up now and then you stay three years.I did not expect it, they were left that two or three months of the season, in 2016.At first it cost me a lot for the systems, English, I had to learn many things and thus get mid -season, for a young man, that the coach is going to put cane...In the end I was getting little by little, "Viny says how his landing was in the first team and points out how his last year was, with Casimiro:" The idea was to go on loan but the Unicaja did not want.I was going to students and Malaga told me that I had to stay.My agent told me that I had to endure because Luis Casimiro also told me that he was going to play minutes, not many but something, and in the end the subject was not so ".
