Arsenal Football Club of England has signed a nine-year-old Nigerian soccer wonderkid, Munir Muhammad Sada, into it’s football academy.
Munir, who hails from Zaria in Kaduna State, was unveiled by the English Premier League Club after he signed the dotted lines in the presence of his mother and grandmother.
Munir was given the number 9 jersey for the Arsenal’s underage team, after he signed the contract in London, United Kingdom.
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An information officer at Kaduna State Department of Public Affairs, Yunus Abdallah, in a Facebook post, shared photos of the kid star kitted in an Arsenal jersey with the following words:
“Arsenal FC have signed a nine-year-old Nigerian. Munir Muhammed Sada, an indigene of Zaria Local Government area of Kaduna State.
“He is expected to be playing for the youth soccer team of Arsenal FC,” Abdallah posted.
Born to a father from Kaduna State and a mother from Katsina State, Munir said he always had a dream of playing football and started even earlier from his primary school.
As it stands, Munir Sada is currently the hottest Nigerian kid foorbal star at the moment as he is being touted to toe the line of the great Lionel Messi who joined the Barcelona academy at the age of 9.
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