Know the truth about SpawN

The Danish community site XplayN.com have recently published a series of articles about the Swedish Counter-Strike legend Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed.

The series of articles that counted five posts in all were, unfortunately, only available in Danish. Now, it has been translated to English, and the first part of the series is available.

A little snippet from the first part:

The year was 2001, and in the southern part of Stockholm - also known as Farsta (Fagersjö) - Abdisamad Mohamed lived with his father, his mother and his siblings. The family had moved to Sweden from the capitol of Somalia, Mogadishu, when Abdisamad was three years old and initially lived in Nybro, and later moved to Stockholm. Abdi was very active in his younger years, and played a great deal of soccer and basketball. Especially basketball with it's ghetto-american vibe was the preferred, and for a long period of time he had an ambition of becoming a professional basketball-player. Even at his younger age, Abdi had a winner's mentality in everything he put his mind to, and despite the rapid evolvement of the popularity of computers and gaming consoles, Abdi stuck to the physically active hobbies. In the summer of 2001 however, he accidentally broke his elbow in two places during a soccermatch, which put a sudden stop to his active lifestyle for a period of time.

SpawN himself has commented the series of articles, stating that it is amazing, and bring up some stuff that even he doesn't remember. If you're interested, there's great reading in sight. Read the first part by clicking here - and stay tuned for the four remaining articles of XplayN.com's series, "The truth about SpawN".

#1
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Lithuania kexas
Football, not soccer..
2008-03-25 01:04
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#2
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Netherlands adrbb
The title suggests that there is something SpawN is not telling the public, or that is just how I anticipate it. Good read though. Post the other translated ones aswell when you have em please!
2008-03-25 02:45
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#3
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Denmark Nomad - HLTV.org
XplayN named their articles "The truth about SpawN" therefore the headline.. :)
2008-03-25 02:56
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#4
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North Macedonia Bubee !
I red the following link (here) ....its amazing how fast he earned the skill...btw he passed a lot of team before he got into SK...go SpawN go :)
2008-03-25 09:40
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#5
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Romania EaASY
lies .. spawn was born on a computer desk .. his first double click was at the age of 1 week
2008-03-25 11:08
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u have something offensive :P ?
2008-03-25 11:16
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#7
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Faroe Islands s1carius
It's really a brilliant article, I read the danish version. Really interesting, and I must give some respect to the guy who wrote this. Cause there are several things in the story I didn't even know about. Gj!
2008-03-25 11:47
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#8
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Denmark dNg
You know danish? :D
2008-03-25 12:11
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3 replies
#12
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Faroe Islands s1carius
I can speak Faroese, Danish, Norwegian, English, Icelandic a tad German, and I have mostly no problem understanding swedish. :o]
2008-03-25 13:44
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2 replies
#14
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Finland Kelsey
Nice. I can speak German, French, English, Swedish and Finnish : ))
2008-03-25 14:35
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#22
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Denmark dNg
n1 (:
2008-03-25 18:11
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#9
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Portugal odr@
OH NO!!SPAWN IS WHITE??????
2008-03-25 12:23
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2 replies
#10
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Russia Carl_F?
Lol xD
2008-03-25 12:40
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1 reply
:DD
2008-03-25 13:06
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#13
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Lithuania Pukinis
gj
2008-03-25 14:20
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#15
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Turkey OFFICIALNEAL
SpawN is the best counter-strike player in the world
2008-03-25 14:36
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#16
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Netherlands AK^ WOEHOE
don't agree :)
2008-03-25 14:57
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2 replies
#19
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Romania EaASY
God ..its You?
2008-03-25 15:59
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1 reply
#26
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Netherlands AK^ WOEHOE
maybe :D, but I don't agree SpawN is the BEST counter-strike player in the world..
2008-03-25 21:55
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Nice revisit :) Pd1: What a disappoint sjippaH... According to previous news by you, trying to draw attention on them, I expected at least a headline similar to: 'SpawN's secrets revealed' :P Pd2: I even expected you to post the 'fnatic receive penalty' news instead of Nix0n, with some sort of 'Are fnatic part-time strippers?' headline xDD
2008-03-25 16:48
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#21
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Denmark Nomad - HLTV.org
Haha, it is Martin that come up with the really weird headlines, not sjippaH... :P
2008-03-25 16:51
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#23
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World killu
How can he play for Sweden on WCG ? If he is born in Somalia?
2008-03-25 19:40
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#25
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Canada deathbyfate
Because he's lived in sweden since he was 3 or so it says. Besides even if he wanted to play for a team in somalia, he'd probably have a hell of a ping trying to play with them :P
2008-03-25 20:53
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#24
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Romania fReedOOm
the Legend of Counter-Strike end ShroetKomando is born in SOMAlia
2008-03-25 19:47
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That is sooo... not interesting!
2008-03-25 22:39
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#28
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World tR0nTY^
well there is nothing about how he started cs :\
2008-03-26 10:05
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He broke his elbow and started to practise CS - long story short :) Some of those tricks and tips by ScreaM would also be nice :D
2008-03-26 15:29
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#32
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Finland Rimzan
who cares
2008-03-26 18:24
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3 replies
#45
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Europe charon
hltv does? (you not included)
2008-03-28 02:51
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1 reply
#63
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Finland Rimzan
indeed
2008-04-03 13:20
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#52
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Denmark Danny D3
non-noobs does (you not included)
2008-03-29 18:36
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#36
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Argentina enzo_a
hahah SpawN basquetball football wtf?
2008-03-26 20:06
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#37
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Portugal mesh
spawn loves my country :D
2008-03-26 21:12
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#38
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Other DraG
Moral of the article Play Basketball Go PrO :D
2008-03-26 22:08
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#41
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Poland porn_king
soccer sounds kind'a gay
2008-03-27 13:19
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#46
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Latvia Epixxx
he is good, but not the best.
2008-03-28 02:52
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ofcourse , walle is the best =D
2008-03-28 09:44
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#48
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Lithuania zyK's
lol :DD
2008-03-28 16:02
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#60
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Switzerland MadeInLondon
charon, jonathan, very nice discussion was fun to read and follow, but i had to delete it ;) (some of jonathan's post are still there, because his name overlappes the "disable" button -.-)
2008-04-02 20:08
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You owe me some Swiss chocolate for those deletions!!! LOL
2008-04-02 21:13
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#61
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Belgium Layzzz
Niice you played basket :D(i do it to)
2008-04-02 20:14
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