Super Eagles goalkeeper, Adebayo Adeleye, in this interview with JOHNNY EDWARD, talks about his early beginnings and his career-saving move to Israel after the Golden Eaglets misadventure in 2017 and more
Jerusalem are competing in the Israeli Championship play-off round. What are your team’s chances of winning the title this season?
Our chances are very bright, like other teams in the play-offs, but it is going to be tough because reigning champions Maccabi Haifa are also competing as well. This season has been very tough and I think the same thing will apply to the play-offs. We managed to get through to this stage because of our hard work and I believe we can make history.
I’m just happy to end the season in style, qualifying the team for the European qualifiers, we will continue until we reach our goal for the season.I was born into a family of five and I’m the only male child. My growing up was quite difficult just like the average Nigerian youth out there. I started my career at a very tender age, having played grassroots football around Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.
You were part of the U-17 team that couldn’t qualify for the 2017 Africa U-17 Nations Cup after losing to Niger 3-2 on aggregate. How did you feel after that setback? I was unhappy at that time after we failed to qualify. There were lots of issues at that time in the team. Our team had been overhauled with barely a week to the first leg in Abuja because of MRI. Though we won the first leg at home 1-0 it was far from our best. It was not the team that had been training tirelessly for months. In the second leg, we could not take our chances because we lacked the experience and cohesion to really make those openings count.
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