Rabiu Afolabi

Rabiu Afolabi commands my respect as one of football's unglamorous essentials. Born in Osogbo, Nigeria, the 184 cm centre-back spent his career anchoring the most unforgiving line on the pitch, where one lapse undoes everything. That he later moved into coaching tells me football was never a job to him but a calling. I am always drawn to defenders over strikers, the players who shield rather than shine, and Afolabi clearly belonged to that selfless tribe.

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Name (English)

Rabiu Afolabi

Name (Japanese)

ラビウ・アフォラビ

Reading

らびう・あふぉらび

Born

April 18, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabiu%20Afolabi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147124

Tags

• Osun State
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.