• Saturday, 28 December 2024

Ademola Olajade Alade Aylola Lookman.

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Ademola Olajade Alade Aylola Lookman.
Born 20 October 1997.
He is a professional football player who plays as a forward for Serie A Club Atalanta. 
He grew up in Peckham (London)and got straight As in GCSEs.
Ademola Lookman's meteoric rise was kick-started when Charlton Athletic signed him as a teenager. 
However, the road to the top has been bumpy,with a tough moment coming while he was on a season-long loan at Fulham from RB Leipzig. 
In November 2020,during injury time of a televised Premier League fixture against West Ham at the London stadium, Fulham were tailing by a goal.
The visitors were awarded a penalty, but Lookman's weak Panenka chip looped straight into the arms of Lukasz Fabianski.
"I couldn't even describe the devastation, "Lookman told the Guardian a few months later.
Lookman represented England up to under-21 level but qualifies for Nigeria through his parents and made his senior international debut in 2022.
He helped them into the final of the Africa Cup of Nations last year, where they lost 2-1 to Ivory Coast. 
Lookman finished fourteenth in this year's Ball on Doors before being crowned Africa's Best this week.
Lookman left Charlton for Everton aged 19 in an £11 million deal in 2017 but struggled to secure a regular starting place.
He went on loan and then made a permanent move to RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga. But it again looked like he wouldn't fulfill the talent he showed in South London. 
But a £10 million move to Serie A  Atalanta was the making of him. He played 3 seasons for Atalanta.During this time he played 92 matches and score 45 goals.
We'll wish him luck in his career!