Michael Babatunde

Michael Babatunde

Personal information
Date of birth	(1992-12-24) 24 December 1992 (age 29)
Place of birth	Lagos, Nigeria
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Club information
Current team	Wydad AC
Number	10
Youth career
	Water FC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010	Heartland	29	(15)
2011–2013	Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih	64	(32)
2013–2015	Volyn Lutsk	46	(24)
2015	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	15	(7)
2015–2016	Raja Casablanca	25	(15)
2016–2018	Qatar SC	40	(23)
2018–	Wydad AC	38	(13)
National team‡
2013–	Nigeria[1]	17	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 November 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 November 2016

Michael Babatunde (born 24 December 1992) is a Nigerian football midfielder, who plays for Wydad AC in Botola Pro. He has played for various clubs in Nigeria, Ukraine and other countries.

Club career[]

He was born on December 24, 1992, in Lagos, Nigeria. As a young boy, he tagged along when he turned 5 years old. He was playing soccer with friends, not intimidated by the bigger boys. At the age of 8, he was recruited to join the youth academy club in Lagos. Recognized smaller than most of the kids in his age group, Michael eventually got recognized by a bigger academy Water FC Academy Abuja, where he was groomed as a professional, later linked with Heartland. He played several games for U-17, U-20 and Super Eagle the National Team of Nigeria. Michael has played a total of 14,420 minutes, has had 188 appearances, 163 lineups, 35 substitutes, 10 substitute out, 25 substitute on the bench, 101 goals, 19 yellow cards, 0 red cards. He has been in Ukraine from 2010 to 2015.

Babatunde moved to Ukraine at the age of 19, signed by Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih of Ukraine from Heartland of Nigeria. He became noted in Ukrainian football after scoring his first goal against FC Chornomorets Odesa, scoring 2 goals at will with the team which lead his club to stay at the Ukrainian Premier League from 2010 to 2013. The club eventually went bankrupt. In 2012–2013, he set a record for most goals to assist in a calendar year, and has scored 6 goals in total at the Ukrainian Premier League from 2010–2015. He later went on a free transfer to Volyn Lutsk. Babatunde signed for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in August 2015.

In December 2015, he joined Moroccan club Raja Casablanca.^[2] On 31 May 2016, Babatunde joined Qatar SC in the Qatar Stars League.^[3] In 2018, Babatunde returned to Morocco to join Wydad AC.^[4]

International career[]

Babatunde is a frequent player in the Nigeria national team, playing for Nigeria in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Honours[]

Qatar SC

• Qatari Second Division: 2016–17

Wydad AC

• Botola: 2018–19
• CAF Champions League runner-up: 2018–19

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (Mobile) (in Ukrainian)

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