Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan have secured the services of one-time Golden Eaglets goalkeeper, Laide Okanlawon for the new football season which gets underway this weekend across the country.
The 18-year-old goal minder was a member of the victorious Nigerian side to the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea and he arrived at Shooting Stars from former league champions Kano Pillars, who are already through to the semifinals of this year’s CAF Champions League.
Okanlawon, who started out his career at Lagos-based Westerlo Academy, from where he teamed up with the Golden Eaglets is one of twelve new players brought in to beef up the Ibadan side who are staging a return to the Premier League after a three-year stay in the Nigerian second division.
Some of the other new players include Sylvester Ebiaku, Ben Dominic, the club’s former captain Yomi Adigun and Nafiu Taiwo, the younger brother of former Shooting Stars and Super Eagles winger Wasiu Taiwo and they are expected to play key roles in the club’s quest for a first league title since 1998, the year in which they won the last of their record fifth top flight title, a record they share with three other club sides – Rangers, Heartland and Enyimba.
“Any player brought into Shooting Stars will definitely perform a key role this season,” said the club’s General Manager, Mutiu Adepoju. “It is now up to the players to justify the confidence we have in their abilities by bringing smiles upon the faces of our supporters who have not had much to cheer about in recent years.”
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