39-Year-Old Nigerian Footballer, Found Dead in Italy

A Nigerian footballer, Akeem Omolade, has been discovered lifeless in Palermo, Italy.

FC Torino, the previous membership of the 39-year-old Nigerian, introduced his dying on Monday, by way of their web site.

Emergency providers discovered him unresponsive in a Peugeot. Preliminary examination confirmed no apparent exterior accidents.

Every day Mail quoted Omolade’s household as saying the Kaduna-born participant had complained of leg pains some days earlier than his demise.

In a press release, FC Toronto mentioned, “The President Urbano Cairo and the entire Torino soccer membership share heartily within the ache of the Omolade household for the dying of Akeem Omolade, a former soccer participant from Granada.

“Arriving at Toro from Treviso, Omolade performed first within the Primavera squad and later within the First Crew, making his Serie A debut with the grenade on February 2, 2003, within the match in opposition to Inter.”

The Kaduna-born footballer moved to Italy at 17. He joined Treviso, the place he made his skilled debut in Serie B.

After only one season, Omolade would enroll with Torino within the Serie A.

He additionally represented 11 different golf equipment within the nation, together with Treviso, Novara, and Reggiana earlier than his retirement in 2017.