Brito Sporting Club of Portugal has snapped up United Kingdom-based talented young Nigerian-born footballer, Yaqub Usman-Malah.
Yaqub, born in Nigeria in 2006, is regarded as a budding Nigerian talent with ‘unquantifiable promise and potential’. The promising youngster was unveiled last weekend.
Before his contract agreement with Brito Sporting Club, he was a student and a trainee player with the Brooke College Football Academy in the United Kingdom.
At Brooke College, Yaqub had an impressive 17 goals in 32 matches with no injuries in 116 training days, cumulating into 2, 270 minutes of on-field action.
A clear testimony of his outstanding performance at the Academy was provided by the lead coach of the Under-17B team which Yaqub played with.
Tomasz Wasylik described Yaqub as a ‘well-liked person’ and a role model to his teammates due to his professionalism and consummate work rate.
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He further stated that Yaqub has played in National School Cup competitions against other colleges and programme in the 2023/2024 session and is a good ‘tactical player’, ‘technically good” and can ‘play in multiple positions on the field’.
It is expected that Yaqub will live up to the potential and promise identified by Coach Tomasz Wasylik of the Brooke College Football Academy and achieve greatness in his new club.
“While looking forward to the display of his unarguable skills and boundless stamina, we wish Yaqub a successful career and a place in the halls of football greatness across the globe,” Yaqub’s father, Usman Malah said in a statement .