Life takes many turns and if not tell Jordi Amat. According to the magazine Hola, the footballer has gone from playing for Spanish, Betis and Rayo Vallecano to become Prince of Siau, an Indonesian island. The thirty-year-old, born in Canet de Mar and of Asian roots, decided to try his luck outside of Spain and is currently playing in Malaysia.
Upon her arrival in Southeast Asia, she reconnected with her origins and met her family, and it was then that she learned that her grandmother holds the title of princess on the island of Siau. This belongs to his family since his great-great-grandfather was proclaimed rajah, a royal title equivalent to king in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
This noble privilege is passed down hereditarily. “When I was little, my grandmother told me the story that I was the crown prince of a region of Indonesia and now we are waiting for them to give me the document to be able to certify the title,” the Catalan declared on the Tot es program mou, on TV3.
Now the footballer has become one of the seventy rajahs of Indonesia, the largest archipelago in the world with more than 250 million inhabitants. Amat’s idea is to combine his title with soccer for Johor Danul Takzim in Malaysia and his country’s team.
“My mission is to work for the people and make a financial contribution because there are many things to do on the island of Siau,” declared the Catalan. Despite this, he assures that the title “will not change my life much” and his illusion now is “to make a career in Asia. I am very young, I feel good both physically and mentally and I really want this challenge”, he declared a few years ago. months to the daily As.
Shortly after, Amat swore allegiance to the Indonesian Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, thus obtaining the nationality of the country where his grandmother was born. As reported by the Royal Council of the Sultanate of Nusantara, the footballer has already officially received the title of crown prince.
On his social networks, Jordi Amat declared that he was “very happy and proud to be an Indonesian citizen and so is my family. I have no words to describe my feelings right now.” In addition, the footballer has begun to receive classes in Bahasa, the Indonesian language, in order to communicate without problem with the inhabitants of the island.
