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Rasheedat Ajibade

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Rasheedat Busayo Ajibade (born 8 December 1999 in Mushin) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for the Atletico de Madrid and has been an international footballer for Nigeria since 2018.

He has represented Nigeria in two absolute World Cup, two Sub- 20 World, two Sub- 17 World Cup and won an African Cup. In 2017 he was on the list of the 10 most promising football players in Africa by Goal.com. It has been included in the ideal eleven of the Norwegian League in 2020 and has won a Spanish Supercup and a Queen's Cup with the Atletico of Madrid.

Trajectory

Ingeniería en Nigeria
He played at FC Robo since 2009. In their first season at the Premier League in 2013, they were second to their group of ten teams, and were classified for the final phase of the championship, which was cancelled for lack of funding. In 2014, they competed in the Professional League, the second category of the league and was elected as one of the best young talents in their country, while they achieved the promotion to the Premier League.

In 2015, he was left in his group of eight teams. In 2016 they were six in a group of nine teams and in 2017 five in a group of seven teams. In this last year Ajibade of his team's elected captain. And he was the top scorer of the competition with 8 so many tied up with Reuben Charity and Vivian Uwandi. In May 2018 she was chosen as the best player of the Premier League of 2017 in the Nigeria Pitch Awards. In 2018 he scored four goals in a single league match, and they were left in the fifth position of his group of eight teams.

In 2017 and 2018, he also won Nigeria's female freestyle football competition.

I jump to Europe
In December 2018, Ajibade signed for the Norwegian team Avaldsnes IL of the Toppserien. He debuted on March 23, 2019 in the 1-0 defeat on the first day of league to the Klepp replacing Erikinha. The Avaldnes started the league with bad results and Ajibade alternated the title with the supplication. His first goal came on the ninth day of league before the Røa, serving to tie the encounter in the 89 minute. Ajibade settled on the team, which also improved its results, and with five goals and four assists helped to leave the drop posts and end up in fifth position in the league. At the Norwegian Cup the final rooms were raised. Ajibade played the three games in this competition and gave an attendance in the final octaves.

In his second season he scored seven goals and gave three assists and the Avaldnes was third in the Topserien. Ajibade was chosen in the ideal Eleven of the championship. In the Cup he marked a double in the octaves in the final and reached the semifinal in which they were eliminated by the Vålerenga.

On January 1, 2021 the Atlético Madrid announced its registration for a season and a half. He debuted on January 6 by replacing Turid Knak with the Vallecano Ray in a league match that ended with a tie to one.
After this tie the team changed coach and