For Gabon's football players, the name of the game is survival

At 28, when he should have been at the peak of his sporting career, this professional football player has traded the ball for a paint roller and his cleats for work boots.

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Chicco Sassou, 32, kicks a ball on the football pitch in Libreville on March 4, 2021. AFP PHOTO
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Dressed in a red Real Madrid jersey smeared with white, Gamamba Souleimane applies a fresh coat of paint to the walls of a small house in Gabon's capital Libreville. 

At 28,

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