Akande Tope

Akande Tope
Personal information
Full name Akande Tope
Date of birth (1997-12-03) 3 December 1997
Place of birth Nigeria
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 Shooting Stars
Number 6
Youth career
2010 Karamone
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2012-2014 Prime F.C. 63 (7)
2015– Shooting Stars 4 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Akande Tope (born 3 December 1997) is a Nigeria footballer who currently plays for Shooting Stars [1] in the Nigeria Premier League. He is from a family of 4 professional football players Akande Niyi Busaga, Akande Tunde and Akande Abiodun Asimiyu. He was signed on loan from Karamone F.C. in 2012 to Prime F.C. in the NIgeria Federation FA Cup and Nigeria National League NNL. He burst into the lime-lights in 2012 when he started showing more than expectations of the technical crew of Prime FC that made them fix him regular to the team. He was part of the team that made Prime FC qualified for the Semi-Final of the Nigeria Football Federation FA Cup which he scored a fantastic volley goal.[2] He becameone of the key player of Prime FC in 2012 till 2014 but during his playing in Prime FC, several Nigeria top premier league teams Warri Wolves, Enyimba International F.C., Shooting Stars F.C. and Enugu Rangers F.C. made transfer request which negotiation could not finalised. Tope's representative is Ramone Remmie

References

  1. ↑ http://africanfootball.com/news/536058/Tope-Akande-joins-brother-at-3SC
  2. ↑ http://theeagleonline.com.ng/federation-cup-prime-shock-rangers-in-ibadan/

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