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Ademola Lookman: Nigeria striker reflects new career chapter with Atalanta 

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Ademola Lookman: Nigeria striker reflects new career chapter with Atalanta 
By Wale Mustapha
When Ademola Lookman make the summer move to join Italia Serie A side, Atalanta, not many expected to see him making a significant impact looking at how his career has being since he turned professional footballer.
However, the Nigeria striker has hit the ground running as he find a new home with Atalanta and under a coach who has placed so much believe in him.
Lookmam has scored a remarkable 11 Serie A goals in this campaign with two assists having enjoyed new role given to him by Gian Piero Gaspeerini.
The 25 year old Lookman who is an original player of RB Leipzig has had loan spells at Everton, Fulham and Leicester City at various stages of his career.
The Super Eagles’ forward did not envisaged how his football career has turned out to be but took positive in it as it has helped him developed as a player.
He expressed delight and appreciation for the opportunity to be part of new Atalanta project, a move he described as right step in his developmental process.
“To be honest, not really,” he says. “It’s weird because I was the person that would set out things, like, ‘I want to do this by then’. But then it just never went that way. And with my first loan in Germany, which was amazing, I enjoyed it. I took on a new environment and I embraced it.”
“Since I first came into professional football, it’s been up and down. Now, for the first time in my career, everything that I’m doing is coming together.
“Whether that’s work away from training or whatever I have planned for myself, it’s all piecing together and it’s all working for me, things that I never saw before, I’m seeing them now and how much more important they are,’ he said.
“I’m so focused on now. The now is the most important for me and how I can affect today and tomorrow.
“I used to think about the future, you can get caught up in the future and the future will always come but the now is the most important.”
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