Yorùbá Football Federation

This is not Old Trafford, This is Lekan Salami Stadium Ibadan Yorùbaland. Up Shooting...!!
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Yoruba built Yorùbaland

Asisat Oshoala wins African Footballer of the Year for Women category 2023 at CAF Awards, Agba Baller 🔥
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The Unforgettable Yorùbá!

Olubayo Adefemi (1985-2011)

One of the finest full back, Adefemi started his career at Bendel Insurance before joining Delta Force in 2002. He moved to Isreal in 2005 and spent three years playing top flight football at Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Hakoah Ramat and Hapoel Bnei Lod.

Adefemi was part of the Nigeria's U20 team at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in Netherlands, he scored in the penalty shootout in a breathtaking 10-9 win over Netherlands in the Quarterfinals. His second goal in that tournament was in a 3-0 thrashing of Morocco in the Semi-finals. The team ended the tournament with a silver medal in a controversial 2-1 loss to Lionel Messi's Argentina.

Adefemi was also a crucial member of the U23 Nigeria team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China. He scored the opener in a 4-1 win over Belgium in the Semi-final. Sadly, the team yet again lost to Argentina in the final.

He also played for Rapid Bucureṣti and SCR Altach both in Austria before signing for Greece's Skoda Xanthi in the summer of 2010.

On April 18, 2011 Adefemi was driving to the airport to catch a flight to Nigeria in preparation for his wedding with model, Shade Adeshina but he never made it to the airport. His car skid off the road and crashed into an highway pole. He was pronounced dead on the spot. He was only 25 at the time.



A Yoruba nation will have a hall of fame to remember sportsmen such as this.

Agba Baller: Asisat Oshoala becomes first African player to score at three Women's World Cups

Credit: GOAL

Asisat Oshoala with another masterclass performance

Asisat Oshoala has now scored 17 goals in 2023

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Pele: A Tribute
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I have lived in 2 worlds, developed and underdeveloped. I have transcended 2 generations, Millenias and Gen-whatever...

That is the reason why I find it sacrilegious and blasphemous to read opinions and arguments from the younger generations, about Pele, and his status and place in World Football. They even have the audacity and temerity to declare Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi as more deserving of the title GOAT. Therein lies the disconnect between the world I grew up in, and this present one.

Two totally different worlds, which shape our worldview, and hence our perspective of what ought to constitute, and determine who the GOAT football player is. But because Geography is different from History, I will narrow everything down to the ‘impact’ of these Players on the religion called football... Pele was the first global superstar to transcend his sport. He appeared in Movies, was splashed on the cover of every major newspapers, he plays the Guitar and even released a music album!

In the time of Pele, there were no social media... no Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatever... yet a footballer who NEVER played in any of the major European leagues won 3 World Cups. In that time, football was pure Art, not the the Science Fiction we now watch. Pele won the world cup as a teenager, without being injected with growth hormones like Messi, or overworking himself in the Gym like Ronaldo... HE JUST PUT ON HIS BOOTS AND PLAYED MESMERISING FOOTBALL!

Back in our day, there was always one and only clear, known, confirmed and indisputable ‘King’ of anything. The ‘King’ of Boxing was Muhammad Ali, the King of Reggae was Bob Marley, King of Pop was Michael Jackson, Basketball had Michael Jordan, Afrobeat had Fela, and so on. These days it is Cristiano vs Messi, Federer vs Nadal, Hamilton vs Verstappen, etc. IT WAS PELE Vs NOBODY... HE WAS SIMPLY THE KING OF FOOTBALL.

The first time ever that the entire World jointly ‘Worshipped’ a Sportsman

Brazilian soccer legend Pelé has died.

He won a record three World Cups.
He was 82.

It's another day. Football a way of life. Watch out for the Yoruba football federation on the pitch soon.