Funso Ojo

Funso Ojo
Funso Ojo (2011)
Personnel
Surname	Funso-King Ojo
birthday	August 28, 1991
place of birth	Antwerp ,  Belgium
size	178 cm
position	Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Olse Merksem SC
0000-2004	Germinal beerschot
2004-2008	PSV Eindhoven
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008–2012	PSV Eindhoven	11 (0)
2011	→  VVV-Venlo  (loan)	8 (0)
2012-2013	Beerschot AC	24 (1)
2013-2014	Royal Antwerp	8 (0)
2014-2015	FC Dordrecht	32 (0)
2015-2017	Willem II Tilburg	60 (0)
2017-2019	Scunthorpe United	82 (3)
2019–	Aberdeen FC	5 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2006	Belgium U-15	4 (0)
2006-2007	Belgium U-16	15 (0)
2007	Belgium U-17	5 (0)
2010	Belgium U-20	1 (0)
2011	Belgium U-21	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of September 25, 2019

Funso-King Ojo (born August 28, 1991 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian football player who is under contract with FC Aberdeen .

Career

society

Funso Ojo, who has partly Nigerian ancestry, began his career in his native Belgium. He came to Germinal Beerschot through the small district association of Antwerp Olse Merksem SC . For the Antwerp club he played in their youth teams until 2004. This was followed by a move to the top Dutch club, PSV Eindhoven, during his youth . Here he made his debut on May 5, 2009 under the experienced coach Huub Stevens in the professional team. In the Eredivisie game against Willem II Tilburg , Ojo came on for Jason Culina in the 84th minute . In the following years he only came to his assignments sporadically in Eindhoven under the new coach Fred Rutten . In 2011 it was briefly awarded to VVV-Venlo .

In 2012 he returned to Belgium for two years. After a season with his youth club Beerschot, which was refused the license in 2013, he joined the city rivals Royal Antwerp the following six months . In January 2014, the defensive midfielder moved to the Dutch second division club FC Dordrecht . With the club he rose to the Eredivisie at the end of the 2013/14 season . After the team was relegated the following year as bottom of the table, Ojo remained in the first division. He joined Willem II Tilburg for two seasons .

The 25-year-old moved to England in July 2017. At Scunthorpe United he was a regular player for two seasons before the Scottish first division club FC Aberdeen secured his services for a six-figure transfer fee. He made his debut for the Dons in July 2019 in the European Cup against Satschchere from Georgia.

National team

Between 2005 and 2011 Ojo played for the Belgian Football Association. After his debut in the U-15 in 2005, he played in the U-16 from 2006 . His first international match in the U-17 national team followed in 2017 . After a two-year hiatus, Ojo played in the U-20s and U-21s of Belgium in 2010 and 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Funso Ojo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Funso Ojo in the weltfussball.de database
• Funso Ojo in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Funso Ojo in the soccerway.com database
• Funso Ojo in the soccerbase.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Funso Ojo: Scunthorpe United sign Belgian midfielder on three-year contract. BBC Sport, July 18, 2017, accessed September 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Funso Ojo: Aberdeen complete £ 125,000 deal for midfielder. BBC Sport, July 14, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .