Mourning in the world of football. Former Nigerian striker Akeem Omolade Oluwuashegun, 39 years old, he was found dead in a car in the Ballarò neighborhood of Palermo. During the day he should have taken an exam at the Polyclinic for a pain in his leg, but he could not walk and so a friend of his came to pick him up in the car to accompany him, but as soon as he got on board he felt ill. When help arrived, there was nothing more to be done. His body had no external injuries: violent death excluded.
Omolade worked as a court translator. In the last season he played with Altofonte in the first Sicilian category. At the beginning of the 2000s he played in Serie A with Torino and first in Serie A with Treviso, where he had become a symbol of the fight against racism in football. In fact in 2001, on the occasion of the home game against Genoa, his teammates took to the field with their faces painted black in solidarity after some ultras from Treviso had left the Terni stadium at the time of his previous match. entry into the field.
THE TORO PRESS RELEASE – The president Urbano Cairo and the whole Torino Football Club share heartily in the pain of the Omolade family for the disappearance of Akeem Omolade, former football player grenade. Arriving at Toro from Treviso, Omolade played first in the Primavera squad and later in the First Team, making his Serie A debut with the grenade on February 2, 2003 in the match against Inter. To his loved ones, relatives and many friends of him, the affectionate closeness of the whole world. –
