Tolu Arokodare said, “How do you achieve my first goal? Sky Sports. “I tried to shoot it in a distant corner, but I saw him trying to close me. So I changed my heart at the last minute.”
Dinked finish worked. “If not, they would have killed me,” he laughed.
The new striker of the wolf set up a 2-0 cup victory with Everton on Tuesday, which signed Genk at £ 23 million on the last day of the transfer window. I think that the person they call Tolu can help change it.
“We must believe ourselves,” he said. It is not a problem for those who have overcome greater challenges in the career of taking him from Nigeria to the Premier League through Latvia. His attitude is the attitude of a person waiting for this spotlight.
Tolu is talking Sky Sports At the training ground while the external screen repeatedly holds goals and follow -up celebrations. The celebration, which ignores a drink of tea, is now in the initials of Tolu Emmanuel Arokodare.
“It’s tea time every time I score. It’s my time. I started playing at Amians in France. I motivate it. I just have to score. Others are imitating him in social media.” People now do it in Nigeria.
Wolf team colleagues. Marshall Munetsi and Jorgen Strand Larsen told Tolu that they would do the same if they scored. “Marshall definitely lied!” Zimbabwean forgot after scoring the opening goal with Everton. “Luckily, I have a chance to do it myself.”
‘My first word was a goal’
For Tolu, this obsession with a goal began early. In his family is the story of his first word. That is what they say to me. We were watching Nigeria games on television. Everyone shouted. ‘target!’ I just shouted the same. That was the first thing I said. “
His family keeps supporting him in this trip. He smiled while watching his parents’ photos while receiving Belgium’s ebony shoes and receiving ebony shoes awarded to the best African player in Belgium. “They will not be around for a long time, so they will always be huge.”
Arokodare played with black shoes with his parents while playing in Genk.
Nigeria’s first goal is recently. “It was a big thing for my father. A big step with the national team, he was pleased to see it because he was waiting for it for a long time.” His father was a Chelsea fan, but Tolu and his brothers followed Manchester United.
“I always liked Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham. With Beckham, I knew that he would shake his left arm when he took a free kick, style, and fashion, with Ronaldo, I actually played him.
Competition in the Premier League would have felt the world of young tolu at the time. “I always wanted to play in the Premier League, but you could not imagine that it actually happened. About reality, Wow, I am actually here.”
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‘The moment definition of my life’
It has been many times when I felt that my journey to England was impossible. Due to the visa problem, there was no trial between Freiburg and Toulouse. In the end, Tolu’s agent had an idea about Latvia. “It was a decisive moment of my life and career.”
In Valmiera, Tolu began to show what he could do. “It brought me to the soccer world.” He felt a long way at home, but he likes memories. “They were very welcome, but most people did not see blacks in their lives.”
There he jumped into Bundesliga with FC Koln. It turned out to be too many to teenage tolu. “Honestly, I don’t think it’s ready. It’s a huge and big step in Latvia. I didn’t start a game. I was really having a hard time.”
“The strength was different. And because it was a loan with only a purchase option, I felt like being tested. If you don’t do it, you will go back. It was a moment for my career. It helped to understand what level is.”
‘The best thing I did’
Tolu did so in Amiens in the second layer of France and in Genk in the largest Belgium. Last season, his 24 goals made him a co -top scorer in the top category with a specific tip for scoring in the big game. Life was not simple there.
“Last season, I was almost leaving Genk. Some fans said,” Let’s go to him, we want to go. “
What has changed? “We’ve changed completely how we play. The new players have come in and I have changed. I started playing with more confidence. I was more free.” It changed his trajectory. “I’ve been doing my career so far.”
Congratulations to Arokodare after scoring Club Brugge
‘I wanted to reach my hand’
Tolu is making a difference in the field. In Belgium, I could see light on mental health problems. “I didn’t want to show a vulnerable side before. I thought it was a weakness. But I realized that people could use it if you left them alone,” he explained.
“At that time, I was watching a message for those who are struggling with loneliness.
“I knew that there was a kind of reaching range. I wanted to use it to show people love and support. I didn’t know it would go far as it would be. I received a message from people who didn’t even see football. It was amazing, power. I didn’t know that it would go so far.”
He wants to use his platform again, but he feels slightly frustrated by the Premier League restrictions. “I’m a little sad because I heard that I can’t put a slogan in the shirt under the jersey, but there’s another way.”
‘It was the same as WWE’
Some of these opportunities have been successful in the field, but Tolu is convinced that more goals will be followed despite the difficult start of the wolf. He is encouraged by the success of Strand Larsen. “We have almost the same profile. Fight perfectly.”
He insisted that he could play together. “When two large men were in front, it was afraid of the opposing defenders. It is a threat. And we are also good at our feet. We have the element of that surprise. They will cross or go to Larsen?”
As the Premier League becomes more and more physically, the 6 -foot 6 -inch striker can be a person of this moment. He was already in trouble with James Tarkowski with Dan Burn and Everton in Newcastle. “Obviously, are they the most physical team?” He laughed.
“In Belgium they will give me a foul. They just played here. I didn’t know this. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. It was like WWE in the first game. I am holding about it.
Tottenham is far away on Saturday night. Big opportunity under the light. And wolves can have people for that work. “It is coming together little by little. As time goes by, everything will proceed smoothly. The result will come.” And it also means a goal congratulations …
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