Moises Caicedo is the youngest of ten siblings, his father owned a rickshaw and his mother washed clothes for extra cash.
In his first ever Instagram post, a picture he took in 2017 with his parents, he promised them,” One Day You Will Be Proud Of Me” and he has fulfilled that promise.
The journey wasn’t easy but it was worth it.
Caicedo started playing football at the age of 5 with his elder brothers who didn’t take it easy on him. When he was asked, he said, he learned football the hard way.
One mooring, young Caicedo was smacking the ball against the wall of his house when he caught the eye of a local coach called Ivan Guerra. The coach loved the way Caicedo was striking the ball with both feet, he approached him and asked him to joins his team named ‘Barcelona”.
Ivan became Caicedo’s godfather, buying him football boots, paying his transport fare to practice, and help his family out with food when they had none.
According to Caicedo, Ivan was the only one who believed in him. By the age of 13 years, Caicedo was picked to play in a regional eleven after which he joined the youth ranks of a professional club called, Espoli. Two (2) years later, one of his brothers got him a trial at a team called Independiente del Valle which he passed, joining the youth team. Everything looked to be going well until he had a serious knee injury.
He tore his ACL, it was so serious that he had surgery on it more than once. He had to spend ten (10) month recovering from the injury at the age of just sixteen (16) years. He recovered and came back and was even better, he captained his Independient del Valle Under – 18’s to a South American Tournament where he impressed everyone. No one understood how a boy who had just recovered from a ten (10) month injury could still be that good.
Caicedo was only seventeen (17) years when he transitioned onto the Independiente del Valle first team and according to his manager, Ramirez, was their best player at 17. In 2020, Caicedo was playing at the under – 20 Copa Libertadores in Paraguay, his manager flew him back in the middle of the tournament to help them win a league match, the following day, he flew back to Paraguay where he helped the Independient del Valle Under-20’s to become champions against Enzo Fernandez, River Plate.
Also that year, he received his national team call-up to the Ecuadorian national team. At the age of nineteen (19), he was playing and scoring for the Ecuador National Team where he became the best player in the team. He was one of the hottest prospects in South America and the scouts calling with Brighton winning the battle for his signature.
Brighton signed him for 4.5M pounds in 2021 with his club keeping 20% of his training rights and will get more than 20M pounds from his record-breaking move to Chelsea Football Club.
Never give up. Your victory is right around the corner. Trust the process with prayer and God.
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