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Papiss Cisse had a job when he was 15... as an ambulance driver

The Sengalese striker said he left school to take the job as a teenager.

Credit: Steve Drew/EMPICS Sport

WE’VE HEARD ABOUT footballers working some unusual jobs off the pitch before but this is a first.

In an interview with BBC Late Kick Off, Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse has revealed that while he was still only a teenager, he drove an ambulance in his native Senegal and witnessed some traumatic sights before beginning his football career in the AS Generation Foot in Dakar.

“I saw people die in the past when I was 15 and driving the ambulance,” said Cisse, now 27.

I was only 15, which is very young, and that was why I stopped going to school because I had this job.

“Sometimes I had a little money which I gave to my parents. It was hard for me, it was very difficult because I was so young. My first time in the job I saw someone die and I cried but I became strong.”

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