From Our Correspondent
Brito Sporting Club of Portugal, a football club founded in 1956, has signed an official contract with a United Kingdom-based highly-talented, young Nigeria-born footballer, Yaqub Usman-Malah.
TheNewsZenith reports that the Club officially unveiled the young footballer on Jan. 4, 2025.
Yaqub, born in Nigeria in 2006, is a budding Nigerian talent with unquantifiable promise and potential.
Before his official contract with Brito Sporting Club of Portugal, he was a student and a trainee player with the Brooke College Football Academy in the United Kingdom.
At Brooke College Football Academy, Yaqub had an impressive goal average of 17 goals in 32 matches.
He did not record any injuries in 116 training days, cumulating into 2, 270 minutes of on-field action.
Yaqub played with the Under-17B team, as a clear testimony of his outstanding performance at the Academy.
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The lead coach, Tomasz Wasylik, described Yaqub as a ‘well-liked person’ and a role model to his teammates. This was due to his professionalism and unmatched work rate.
Wasylik further stated that Yaqub had played in National School Cup competitions against other colleges and programmes in the 2023/2024 session.
“He is a good ‘tactical player’, ‘technically good” and he can ‘play in multiple positions on the field’,” the coach said.
It is expected that Yaqub will live to the potential and promise identified by Wasylik and achieve greatness in his new club.
Yaqub’s father, Mr Usman Malah stated that he looked forward to him, displaying his unarguable skills and boundless stamina.
“We wish Yaqub a successful career and a place in the halls of football greatness across the globe,” Malah said in a statement on Jan. 8. (TNZ)
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