A Tottenham star was abandoned by mum aged 8 and lost dad to cancer at 16 before epic career…………

Dele Alli, a star player for Tottenham Hotspur and England, is appealing with his estranged parents to come back into his life after they abandoned him.

The multimillionaire businessman Kehinde Alli, a Nigerian, and his British mother Denise, who abandoned him when he was still a child, are the parents of the 21-year-old attacking midfielder.

April 1996 saw his birth in Milton Keynes, Bucks, a little more than a year after his parents’ initial nightclub encounter. Kehinde was pursuing a master’s degree at De Montfort University at the time.

He was born in Milton Keynes, Bucks, in April 1996 just over a year after his parents first met in a nightclub. At the time Kehinde was studying for a Masters at De Montfort University.

He and Denise, then a full-time mum of two, married after a whirlwind romance and broke up three years after Dele was born.

In this heartbroken interview with Mirror, the estranged pair came together to speak about the ordeal in a desperate bid to rebuild their relationship with their son, who earns £60,000-a-week.

Dele’s mum Denise who couldn’t contain her tears narrates how she now cries herself to sleep at night over the ordeal, while his father explains that only thing missing in his life is his first-born son.

Kehinde, 47, told the ­Sunday Mirror: “I just do not understand what we have done wrong.
He refuses to speak to me and it feels like he’s been taken from us. But I won’t give up on getting him back.”

Dele’s mum Denise, 53, added: “I’m a very miserable person because I get so sad that Dele is missing out on his family and we’re missing out on him.

I want to be able to hug him and let him know we all love him to bits.

“I’m not interested in his money, I’d love him the same if he worked in McDonald’s. We just want our son back.”

According to reports, the former couple have not been able to see him since he signed for Tottenham in ­February 2015.

Recalling him leaving, Denise said: “He was in great spirits and said, ‘I love you mum’. I had no idea that would be the last time I would see him. It still leaves me shocked.”

It was also reported that Ali was best man at his dad’s second wedding to Lola in 2006, at that time, he was living with his dad in Houston, Texas.

At the age of 11, Ali returned to England to leave with his mom in Milton Keynes, where he started his football career with junior side City Colts.