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B/R Football Ranks

The Wildest Career in Modern Football

B/R Football Ranks

Bleacher Report

Sports, Soccer

4.8819 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Meet David Olaoye, the 23-year-old from London who is writing his name into the history books in a way different to any other. Leaving the English lower leagues at just 17, David has travelled a career path all his own, that has taken him from Greece to Slovakia to Norway, via Argentina, where he became the first Englishmen to ever play professionally in the country. David talks us through his maddest stories, his career so far, and his hopes for the future; as well as the experiences he's had across the world. To get involved, join the Rank Squad by using the hashtag #BRFootballRanks or hitting us up on social media!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Sijin Odest and you're listening to Be our Football Range.

0:04.0

Hello, Rank Squad. It is Christmas.

0:24.9

So we thought we'd record a little special for you.

0:28.4

And in this special, we have brought in a man who you will not have heard of,

0:32.9

but you will know very well after we have finished with him.

0:36.3

The man in question is David Olaoia, and he is

0:39.7

23 years old from London, but he has had the most eclectic career path I think I've ever seen

0:47.1

anyone have. Four different clubs in four years, starting off in Timpacu in Greece, in Heraclion

0:53.5

in Crete, moving then to Slovenia, where he played for

0:56.5

NK Bravo, onto Argentina, where El Pauvaneer made him the first ever professional Englishman to play

1:04.9

in that country, and then from there, on to Norway, where he plays for Nybergsund in the third tier he is quite the character

1:13.9

David and we had a really good time with him didn't we do we did it was really interesting

1:18.4

since stumbling across him on the social media we've basically been trying to find the right

1:25.5

time to get him in and have a chat about his weird

1:29.0

career and we thought what better time than give everyone a little gift and just drop this one

1:34.5

in the middle of the holidays to give everyone an extra listen and it was good fun look i like i like

1:39.7

hearing about pete we've all got um quirky little career piles of our own but most of them don't

1:43.8

amount so much outside of the little areas we live in. And he's certainly gone above and beyond.

1:51.2

He's living in his comfort zone. Let's put it that way. Absolutely. His man has pushed barriers.

1:55.4

So without further ado, let's get on to our chat with David. It's just a journey.

2:01.2

Enjoy you.

2:02.2

This is a very special episode.

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