The trio of Ibrahim Adewale, Prince Amos and Emmanuel Godwin who are products of the highly revered and leading Academy from Ibadan, Oyo State of Nigeria departed the shores of Nigeria yesternight, 30th of April, 2023 to Sweden.

The duo of Ibrahim Adewale and Prince Amos will continue their assessment with Malmo FC. Last year September, they had trained with Swedish most successful club and the club is now further looking to run the rule on them with the possibility of finalising the details of their professional contract after another round of test assessments with them.

Emmanuel Godwin who according to the Club CEO, who also doubles as the club Sporting Director describes Godwin as one of the most gifted and versatile player of his 5 years old Academy.

Emmanuel Godwin will train with Trelleborg for 3 weeks and will be looking to join his fellow compatriot and another product of Tripple 44, Abel Ogwuche who in November last year signed a permanent contract of 5 years with the Superrentan side.

Samuel Olatunji Okuku, the Club’s CEO in a statement to the media department of the club stated that “we have put in so much work in preparing these players in readiness for these test assessments with Malmo and Trelleborg and we are hoping that they will live up to expectations. We are confident in the abilities of the boys and we believe that what they have learnt here at Tripple 44 over the years will further help them in adjusting when they get over there in Sweden. ‘

He further spoke on the recent fortunes of the club in terms of career advancement and the progress that a number of their products are currently experiencing both at the National team level and on the path to securing professional contracts.

“This period is like our harvest time, over the years we have painstakingly invested huge resources in developing and training our players. We long realise that we can’t cut corners in terms of developing and equipping our players. That has always been the missing ingredients with Nigerian players, we are never lacking in talents but developing the players in the right way as always been a challenge for our boys but we decided to change the narrative and the first thing we ensured we did was getting our scouting and recruitment policies right. We also adopted and integrated one of the best youth Academies in Ibadan as our Under 15 team and today we are beginning to enjoy the dividends of those hardwork and strategic planning of years.’

He continues ” at the moment, three of our boys, IFEOLUWA OLOWOPOROKU, AJIBOLA OWOYEMI AND CHIJOKE LINUS are part of the Nigerian U-17 squad flying Nigeria’s flag in Algeria with Jibola playing for 90 minutes in Nigeria’s victory against Zambia. It is no surprise that we are the fastest growing academy in West Africa and by extension Africa. We won’t stop now, we will keep pushing hard until we become one of the best two Academies from Africa” concluded Okuku