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Rovers FC have signed highly-rated defender Taiwo Olajide ahead of Nigeria National League 2020/2021 upcoming season.
Firstmannew.blogspot.com understands the left-back has signed a deal with the Calabar-based club.
The budding talent ready fit to prove himself in the league, with impressive display.
Coach Samson Unuanel believes the young lad will bolster the club for promotion to the Nigeria Professional Football League.
Olajide performance has announced him to Ghana professional clubs as trailist before.
The lefty, Young stars academy of Ibadan had some spell with Imperial Academy of Ex Super Eagles Seyi Olofinjana and other Amateur clubs in the Nigeria League One.
Selangor's Ifedayo Olusegun has been missing from the club's 2021 pre-season training. He explained why to Goal.
The absence of Selangor FC's star striker Ifedayo Olusegun from the club's 2021 pre-season training has understandably unnerved many of their fans.
Meanwhile, rumours are rife that one reason behind the 2020 Malaysia Super League top-scorer's non-appearance is that he is in the midst of obtaining his Bahraini citizenship, so that he will turn out for the Red Giants as an Asian slot player beginning this season.
On Sunday morning, he expressed his desire to return to action with Selangor, tweeting a photo of the club's training ground.
But hours later, he gave a more definitive answer, to Goal. In an exchange of texts between us and the Nigerian-born striker on late Sunday night, he confirmed the Bahraini rumour. "I should be back [with Selangor] soon as a few things had to be tidied up first. We’ve done that already now.
"I’ve had a Bahraini passport for three years now, so Selangor think it’s better for them to utilise me as an Asian player. All is set now," explained the 29-year old player. While he is one of the best foreign strikers in Malaysia at the moment, Olusegun has also made a name for himself in Bahrain, having turned out for three separate clubs in the country; Malkiya, Al-Hidd and Al-Riffa, between 2012 and 2019.
“Samson is a professional player, responsible and always tries his best for the team. He is really a support for professional when the team needs someone to wait to shine, ”coach Nguyen Thanh Cong, former“ captain ”of Thanh Hoa club once commented like that when evaluating Hoang Vu Samson.
Although he has turned 33, is no longer at the peak of his form, he has to move to an erratic team like Thanh Hoa, Samson still asserted his class in the 2020 season. The striker naturalized 17 matches, contributing 6 goals for Thanh Hoa. Among these, there are many important tables that help Thanh Hoa to overcome Than.QN, Viettel and B.BD.
The value of Samson is not limited to goals. With the captain's armband in hand, the Nigerian-born striker always plays with responsibility, is a spiritual support for the team in the most difficult times. Preparing for the 2021 season, East Asia Thanh Hoa recruited striker Chevaughn Walsh to strengthen the attack. With the addition of a quality partner, Samson is expected to play even more in the second season in the Thanh team.
Hoang Vu Samson (Right) still shows importance despite being 33 years old - Photo: PHAN TUNG
Hoang Vu Samson is still the number 1 striker in the history of the V.League with 168 goals. And at the age of 33, the naturalized striker still does not hide his desire to overcome his own milestones, conquer new successes with East Asia Thanh Hoa.
HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT HOANG VO SAMSON Year of birth: 1988, in Nigeria Previously played for Than.QN, Dong Thap, Hanoi FC, Quang Nam, Thanh Hoa. 3 times the V.League championship in 2013, 2016, 2018; 3 times the V.League runner-up in 2012, 2014, and 2015; runner-up of the National Cup 2019.
Ligue 1 outfit SPORTS GAGNOA, has priced Everest fc player IHUNANYA EMMANUEL who is set to travel to Abidjan on the first week of December.
Ihunaya Emmanuel
The player being one of the scouted players in ATIKU NA ASIA FOUNDATION FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT was initially offered to the club for a season long loan but the heirachy of the team has insisted.
club chairman in the middle,Far right,Atiku c.e.o
Inunanya will put pen paper to paper on a permanent contract after successfully passing his medical examination with Sc Gagnoa.
After mutually understanding of signing the player the young football manager can confirm that. Everest fc will be on some percentage of right too has the parent club of the player .
IHUNANYA EMMANUEL
The 18-year-old sensational will be proud to join the Ivory coast MTN Ligue 1 team.
Ex-Golden Eaglets Star, Ganiyu Bolaji Oseni has revealed reasons his profile in the football industry has been on the rise since he ventured into football years back.
Oseni attributed his rising profile and success to hard work, determination, the grace of God and the support he has received from the Special Adviser to the Oyo State Governor on Culture and Tourism, Hon. Ademola Akeem Ige, which according to him, has contributed immensely to his success in football career.
He stated this during his visit to Hon. Ige’s residence at Olubadan Estate, Alakia, Ibadan on one Sunday afternoon.
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Oseni, who won the FIFA U17 World Cup with Nigeria and Korea 2007 hinted that if not because of the support Hon. Ige gave to promoting sports at the grassroot when he was a council Chairman towards discovering talents among the youths, somebody like him might not have had the opportunity to play at the national team not to talk of playing in European league.
According to him, “it is a thing of joy for me to play for Nigeria at the highest level, and to see my profile and career in football improving over the years. This it is a great privilege and grace of God Almighty that today I am an international footballer. I will forever be grateful to God and Hon. Ige whom God has used to achieve this feat.”
Oseni, who had represented Nigeria at U17 and U23 levels disclosed that he started playing football with boys club, state tournaments, amateur 3, amateur 2, premier team and then joined the national team.
Oseni has played for Long An, Can Tho, Binh Duong, Hoang Anh Gia Lai, Mien Giang (all in Vietnam), Esperance (Tunisia), CSKA Moscow (Russia) and Kahraman maraspor (Turkey).
He advised the youths who want to make a career in football to remain focused, hard work and be prayerful, stressing that the road may be tough in the beginning but they will surely make it once they are determined. He opined.
There have been many instances of age fraudulence in the beautiful game, such as Gourav Mukhi in India and Carlos Alberto in Brazil.
In Mukhi's case, he became the youngest-ever goalscorer in the Indian Super League at just 16 years old, but he was, in fact, actually 28 years old. It is undoubtedly one of football's most famous instances of age-cheating, but what about Carlos Alberto?
The former prodigy was believed to be in his teens when he lifted the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship with his country, but was later found to be lying about his age by five years. As punishment, he was handed a one-year ban from the sport.
One of the more recent cases of age-cheating occurred earlier this year when former Senegal international Guirane N'Daw candidly admitted to falsifying his age in order to become a professional player.
What was perhaps more controversial that his confession, however, was N'Daw claiming that "99% of players have reduced their age" in Senegal. Let's hope that is not the case.
In South Africa, former Ajax Cape Town player Sibusiso Mzizi was alleged to have misled authorities into believing he was five years younger than he actually was,in 2019
Guinea U17 face disqualification from the FIFA World Cup in Brazil following CAF Disciplinary Committee's recommendation of their removal after accepting Senegal protest against two of their players for age cheating.
Former Super Eagles defender, Ifeanyi Udeze attributes age cheat as one of the common problems affecting the growth of football globally.
Former Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo is traumatised after he was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich Delta state for the second time in eight years.
The 36-year-old, who spent over a decade in the Italy's Serie A, was dragged from his car by unknown gunmen on Sunday after parking to buy fruit in the southern city of Warri.
"I was forcefully taken at gunpoint on refinery road not too far from my house, blindfolded and forced into the passenger seat of my car," Obodo told BBC Sport Africa, as he revealed dramatic details of his seizure.
"They started punching me and one of them threatened to shoot me in the head if I don't stay calm and quiet, it was at this point that I explained to them who I was and probably not who they were looking for.
"One of them recognised my name as the footballer, that was when I knew I wasn't targeted, but randomly picked up by these guys.
"It was really traumatising because the motives were unclear and being subjected to another abduction is very cruel.
"They took my diamond earrings, wrist watch, necklace and demanded for money, but I told them I only had my bank cards."
To make things even worse for Obodo he was locked in the boot of his car as his abductors decided to empty his account.
Christian Obodo was locked in the trunk of his own car as the kidnappers drove around making use of his credit cards
"I was kept in my boot for more than four hours. They started emptying my accounts using my two unlimited cards," he said.
"They were driving me to different places, I didn't even know we were still in Delta State. You can tell they are highly experienced in these card transactions.
"They were taking out cash endlessly and took their time with different transactions by removing unlimited cash whilst I was locked up in my boot.
"After they realised they couldn't take out more cash they drove me into a dark spot, where I was dumped later that night and was allowed to leave."
It is the second time the former Perugia, Lecce and Fiorentina player has been kidnapped in his hometown, with the first taking place in June 2012 while he played for Udinese.
Obodo said while this latest incident was random, the trauma has left him broken and feeling unsafe in his country.
"It's sad to say that I no longer feel safe anymore," he told BBC Sport.
"Just to park on the road to buy my mother apple and water melon, only to be seized at gunpoint.
"Imagine travelling on the road where you are all alone. A lot has to be done with security across the country for citizens to feel safe.
"I may have lost money and things money can buy, but now I fear that one day one could lose his life to gun-wielding people who might kill you for not having anything they want."
History of abduction
Kidnappings - more often of oil workers, the rich and famous - are a regular occurrence in Nigeria, but footballers and their families are increasingly being targeted.
