Former Chelsea and Southampton Star Ken Monkou Quit Football to Run Pancake Shop

Ken Monkou Quit Football to Run Pancake Shop
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  • Ken Mankou former Chelsea and Southampton defender flipping career from football to pancakes.
  • He has been working on this since 2019, but finally Ken Monkou quit football to run pancake shop.
  • Mankou who has scored for Chelsea is now flipping almost 150 pancakes a day. 

Former premier league ace flipped his career and quit football for running a pancake shop. He is making 150 tasty treats daily, making records even in this field. 

The defender who was part of Chelsea and Southampton quit football for this business and made almost 300 Premier League appearances for both earlier. 

The Dutchman 58 played with some world-class players such as Matt Le Tissier, He moved to Huddersfield Town from South Coast for a two-year spell at the end of his career.

In an interview Monkou said, “It’s quite a difference, from playing to standing behind the stove flipping the pancakes”.

“It’s good, though, and for me, it’s a sport”.

“Once you’re busy it gets you going and you’re trying to make 150 pancakes a day. I don’t reckon any of the present players would do it.”

Monkou played 198 games for the Saints as a center-back and 94 for the Blues after starting out at Feyenoord. He offered great help to Southampton and bagged ten goals during relegation battles.

Ken Monkou is an ambassador of the Show Racism the Red Card Campaign and works on Chelsea Tv. He shut the shop in 2019 because of his busy career. But has again came back to it. His family has a history of bar bistro and so his passion for food business is something he decided to follow in 2021.

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