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Azeez Idera Ariyike

Currently playing as a center defender at Nakamura Football Academy. Regarded as one of the smartest centre defenders in WAFA LEAGUE.

BIOGRAPHY

Azeez Idera Ariyike is a Yoruba grassroot football player, currently playing as a centre defender at Nakamura Football Academy. She is Known for her aggressive play, she is widely regarded as one of the smartest centre defenders in WAFA LEAGUE.

Nakamura Fa finished at the table bottom of the WAFA LEAGUE 2018/2019 season, but that did not stop her from winning the Best Center Defender of the Season, even when that was her first time of participating in the WAFA LEAGUE. Idera was also part of the squad that won the 2021/2022 WAFA LEAGUE for Nakamura Fa, having played in all games that very season.

She once led her defence line pairing her team mate “Oyinkansola” in trapping a Nigeria women Premier League side “Fc Robo Queens international”  into an offside mode that counted up to 21 times through out a game in ASISAT OSHOALA’S Cup bringing the game to a lower goal line lost of just 2 goals (all thanks to Idera, oyinkan and her defense army)

She repeated such pattern again, during a friendly match at the legacy pitch National Stadium, against the Abuja based Naija Ratels. Immediately Nakamura Fa scored an early goal by Bello Waliat from a set piece, IDERA wasted no time in conjuring the offside trap pattern that led the Premier League side into an ambush of 29 offside traps, that later brought the game to a favourable 1-0 win for her team. 

She was giving the name AKEKE in Yoruba, which translation is “SCORPION” in English. 

GOALS AND ASSISTS
6 goals
2 assists

STYLE OF PLAY
IDERA is known for her aggressive style of play and her  shooting ability.
She’s also a master planner for all kind of offside traps in the round leather game

PERSONAL HONOURS
WAFA LEAGUE 2018/2019-BEST CENTER DEFENDER
WAFA LEAGUE 2021/2022- BEST CENTER DEFENDER 

HONOUR(s)
Silver medal: OLUWAROTIMI CUP 2020
Silver medal: OLORI HADIJAT 2020
Silver Medal:: OLORI HADIJAT-2022
Bronze medal:: IMANI CUP-2022
Bronze medal::: MOFC season18 2022
Champion::: WAFA LEAGUE 2021/2022
Silver medal :: FAUSAT BALOGUN 2022

HOBBIES 
She loves local rapping.
She’s currently part of an Art and singing group called “LIMAAR”

BODY ART AND FACT
Idera Ariyike Azeez has her date of birth, and her grandfather’s native home location inscribed on her lower chest down to her stomach and  a dash mark on each section of her face…

Words on her body reads as follow
“ALAKA ILE BASORUN OYO”

Meaning her fathers came from  ALAKA side of BASORUN compound in OYO, which happens to be one of the oldest place in Nigeria.

EARLY LIFE
She Grew up at Shoetan street kayode Onipan Lagos State Nigeria. 
IDERA is the 4th of four children  IDIAT AJOKE AYINLA, 
Her father married seven wives.
Her mother IDIAT AJOKE was the 7th wife of OGOOLUWA AZEEZ

NICKNAME (s)
Scorpion 🦂 
Omo wa ni ilu oyo(our child from the city of oyo)

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