Junior Ajayi
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Oluwafemi Ajayi | ||
| Date of birth | 29 January 1996 | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al Ahly | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015 | Shooting Stars | ||
| 2015–2016 | CS Sfaxien | 38 | (28) |
| 2016– | Al Ahly | 78 | (26) |
Medal record | |||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 July 2020 | |||
Oluwafemi Ajayi (born 29 January 1996) commonly known as Junior Ajayi, is a Nigerian professional footballer, who plays as a striker for Al Ahly.[1][2]
He was selected by Nigeria for their 18-man squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics,[3] after helping them qualifying to Rio with his decisive goals.
Club career
CS Sfaxien
Junior Ajayi joined Tunisian Sfaxien club in September 2015, he participated in 28 matches in the Tunisian league with a rate of 2388 minutes, scored 10 goals and made seven goals and was punished twice with the yellow card, wearing the number 11 with Tunisian Sfaxien and the same number with the Nigeria Olympic team.[4][5]
Al Ahly SC
Al Ahly has officially signed a contract with him during the summer transfer period to be the second player to join the red team from CS Sfaxien after Ali Maâloul, for $2,500,000, he scored four goals in ten matches.
References
- ^ "خبر في الجول - رسميا أجاي أهلاوي". FilGoal.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ Watch the goal of Junior Ajayi wonderful in the range of Petrojet SC Egyptian league
- ^ ESPN (25 July 2016). "2016 Olympics men's football final squad lists for all 16 teams". ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ "Junior Ajayi". Nnu.ng - Nigeria News Update. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Nigeria, Media (14 June 2018). "Biography Of Junior Ajayi (Footballer)". Media Nigeria. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
External links
- Junior Ajayi at Soccerway
- Living people
- Nigerian footballers
- Nigeria international footballers
- Association football forwards
- Shooting Stars S.C. players
- CS Sfaxien players
- Nigerian expatriate footballers
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
- Expatriate footballers in Tunisia
- 2015 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Nigeria
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Nigeria
- Olympic medalists in football
- Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players
- Al Ahly SC players
- Expatriate footballers in Egypt
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt
- Egyptian Premier League players
- 1996 births
- African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria
- African Games medalists in football
- Competitors at the 2015 African Games