Rasheedat Ajibade

Rasheedat Ajibade
Ajibade with Atlético Madrid in January 2021
Personal information
Full name Rasheedat Busayo Ajibade[1]
Date of birth (1999-12-08) 8 December 1999 (age 24)[2]
Place of birth Lagos, Nigeria[3]
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[3]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Atlético Madrid
Number 16
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2018 FC Robo (9)
2018–2020 Avaldnes 39 (12)
2021– Atlético Madrid 54 (16)
International career
2018– Nigeria 19 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 November 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 October 2022

Rasheedat Busayo Ajibade (born 8 December 1999) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish Liga F club Atlético Madrid and the Nigeria women's national team. She is commonly called "Rash", a shortened form of her first name, and "The Girl With The Blue Hair", an ode to her bright blue hairstyle which she dons whenever she takes to the field.

Ajibade represented Nigeria at age grade competitions, before making her competitive debut for the senior team at the 2018 WAFU Cup in Côte d'Ivoire. In 2017, she was named first in a top 10 list of most promising young footballers on the African continent by Goal.com.[4]

  1. ^ Rasheedat Ajibade at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian) Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Rasheedat Ajibade at Soccerway. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b "AJIBADE Rasheedat". Paris 2024 Olympics.
  4. ^ "Top 10: African most promising women footballers to watch in 2018". Goal.com. Retrieved 17 February 2018.