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Red Bull Salzburg’s Forward Chased by Arsenal

Red Bull Salzburg's Forward Chased by Arsenal

Red Bull Salzburg and young talents. It’s a love story that football fans have seen many times in recent years. From Borussia Dortmund star Karim Adeyemi to Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, many players have come out of the Austrian club. Even the current team boasts of talents such as the midfield genius Luka Sucic or the sensational Slovenian striker Benjamin Sesko. However, another player quickly becoming a fan favourite is Swiss forward Noah Okafor.

Okafor is a youth product of Basel youth academy and has been touted as one of the best players for Switzerland. And in Red Bull Salzburg, Okafor has the perfect environment a young player requires to take his talent to the next level. However, with many top teams looking for new strikers in the summer, Okafor could find himself in a transfer battle between multiple clubs.

So, who is Noah Okafor, and how good is he?

How good is Noah Okafor?

Noah Okafor was born on May 24, 2020, in Binningen, a municipality in the district of Arlesheim situated in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft in northern Switzerland. Okafor’s father is of Igbo descent from Nigeria, while his mother is Swiss. The player joined FC Arisdorf, which was a local club. 

However, in 2009, he made the big move to Basel, one of the most successful clubs in Europe. Joining the club as a nine-year-old, Okafor shone through the youth teams. Over the next nine years, he would rise through the ranks, becoming one of the best youth prospects that the club had seen in years.

In the 2016-17 season, he would be promoted to the under-18s making his debut on August 13, 2016, against Aarau. He would go on to make 16 appearances in the league, two appearances each in the Swiss U18 Elite Finals, Schweizer Cup U-18, and Swiss U17 Elite League. Okafor ended the season with three goals to his name.

By the following season, he would bring his best to the under-18s scoring eight goals in 12 games in the league and two strikes to his name in the UEFA Youth League. These performances caught the eyes of then manager Raphael Wicky who called him to the squad in January 2018. His senior-team debut would come five months later as he played 56 minutes of Basel’s last league match of the 2017-18 season.

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