Obafemi Martins

Obafemi Martins embodies the immigrant athlete's gamble at its most vivid. Leaving Lagos for Italy at sixteen, then bouncing between top European clubs, he built a career on nerve as much as talent. At 170 centimeters he was never the biggest forward, which makes his persistence all the more impressive; goalscoring is finally a contest of will and spring. I have a soft spot for players who succeed through grit rather than physical advantage, and his acrobatic celebrations gave the game real joy. Stories like his, a kid betting everything on a foreign league, are exactly the ones I find worth telling.

Name (English)

Obafemi Martins

Name (Japanese)

オバフェミ・マルティンス

Reading

おばふぇみ・まるてぃんす

Born

October 28, 1984 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

Origin

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Official sitehttps://obafemimartins9.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/obagoal/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi%20Martins
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%90%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207548

Tags

• Lagos State
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.