KOLO TOURE; GHANA’S LEADING SECOND HAND CAR SALESMAN!
Other than dolphins and disgraced BBC presenters, there are few species with a more relentless appetite for sex than Premier League footballers. Just ask Kolo Toure…
Back in 2010, he began an affair with a 22-year-old student Kessel Kasuisyo, and the Man City defender went to extreme lengths to keep it secret.
Like all great student romances, Kolo’s fling began in the 2am drizzle outside a Manchester nightclub. After deploying his famous Ivorian charm, Kolo exchanged numbers with Kessel, and arranged to meet her at a hotel the next day.
“I told him he looked familiar” Kessel later recalled, “but he just said maybe he looks like somebody. He said he sold cars in Africa and did some charity work.”
In a bid to keep his identity a secret, Kolo cooked up an elaborate alter ego: he was a successful Ghanaian car salesman named Francois, who’d moved to Manchester as a student.
Not a football fan, Kessel had no clue who he really was.
Over the next two years, Kolo lived a double life, sneaking round to the student’s council flat disguised with a baseball cap and a pair of Top Gun aviators.
He bought her “sexy white lingerie”, and called from private numbers so she “didn’t waste her money calling.”
The act didn’t stop there. In an Oscar-worthy performance, Toure got down on one knee with a diamond ring, professing his love. And when he disappeared for a few months, he had an explanation for that as well.
Kolo claimed he was back in Ghana flogging second hand Range Rovers, but the reality was slightly different: he was in the Ivory Coast… marrying his actual wife.
So how was Kolo’s exhausting charade eventually rumbled?
The City defender always insisted his student lover didn’t take any photos of him, but one day, she sneakily grabbed one while he was in the shower.
She showed the picture to a friend, who instantly recognised the footballing megastar and urged her to google “Kolo Toure”.
After discovering photos of her beau lifting the Premier League trophy, as well as snaps from his recent wedding, the game was up.
Farewell Francois, Ghana’s most celebrated car salesman…
