16-year-old Ifeoluwa Olowoporoku is ready to grow to be a participant for Swedish giants IFK Goteborg when he turns 18 in July 2026, based on a number of studies coming in another country, Soccernet.ng studies

Olowoporoku turned Nigeria’s youngest nationwide workforce participant when he made the ultimate checklist of gamers for the 2023 CAF U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria. Regardless of incomes a couple of minutes in opposition to South Africa, the groups that had been monitoring his progress knew the standard he possessed.

The teen is an offensive midfielder who likes to play as a ten. Many who noticed the screening means of the U17s in Abuja testified to his distinctive talents as he stood out from the group of boys.

He caught the eye of former Nigeria coach Jose Peseiro who praised his capability to search out house in packed midfield circumstances.

The skills of the 1.70m tall participant have been in comparison with that of Nigeria legend Austin Okocha. His imaginative and prescient and talent to disguise his passes make him a last third distinction maker.

He is superb in small areas and has elite ball-striking capability with an intelligence that’s method above his age. Coupled together with his athleticism and a little bit of aptitude, Olowoporoku is a really extremely rated full midfielder.

Ibadan rising expertise

Many footballers have emerged from Ibadan, one in every of Nigeria’s greatest cities. Tremendous Eagles legend Mutiu Adepoju is without doubt one of the greatest names. Might Olowoporoku additionally grow to be a legend?

He comes from a modest household within the Gbekuba space of the metropolis. He and his youthful brother are members of the Triple 44 Academy, the place Swedish golf equipment first scouted him.

A supply near the household advised Soccernet.ng that one other Swedish membership visited his household early in 2023. Nonetheless, IFK Goteborg additionally noticed him someday in 2022 when their chief scout visited Nigeria.

IFK Goteborg are securing a participant that may undoubtedly be an essential participant for Nigeria sooner or later.

The membership has efficiently signed younger African skills and transferred them to larger golf equipment. One in every of their current success tales is the switch of Malian Malick Yalcouyé for seven million euros to Premier League facet Brighton and Hove Albion, lower than six months after he arrived from ASEC Mimosas.

Olowoporoku has been noticed carrying an IFK shirt in Ibadan, an indication of the place his future lies.

Olatunji Samuel Okuku, the president of Tripple 44, declined to touch upon the younger participant’s future.