Olympiakos striker Brown Ideye has admitted that he had a difficult childhood and was often in trouble with the Nigerian Police in his teenage years.<br /><br />Ideye and his friends that he played soccer with engaged themselves in vices just to earn some extra money and his parents never wanted him to become a footballer due to his bad boy ways.<br /><br /><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1">&ldquo;It was my friends from school.&nbsp; I played football with them, played cards and gambled with them . It was very common in the neighborhood where I grew up, to do anything to earn money, </span></span></span><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1">&rdquo; Ideye was quoted as saying by gazzetta.gr.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1">&ldquo;</span></span></span>I played poker, gambled, played various games with these groups, which were my same friends with whom I played football.<br /><br />&nbsp;</span></span></span><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1">&ldquo;</span></span></span></span></span></span> Overall, we were the bad boys of the neighborhood and that is why my parents did not want me to play football.&nbsp; <br /><br /></span></span></span><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1"><span class="body1">&ldquo;</span></span></span></span></span></span>One day, &nbsp; we played cards the police came and arrested us and of course my parents were furious.</span></span></span><span class="body1"><span class="body1">&rdquo;<br /><br />In his own right, the former Dynamo Kiev and Sochaux attacker can now claim to be a successful footballer, having played in the Fifa Under 20 World Cup, Confederations Cup, Champions League and African Cup of Nations.<br /></span></span>