Croatia
Indonesia
Nigeria
South Africa

Yusuf Lawal

Yusuf Lawal (born 23 March 1998), nicknamed Obagoal, is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Neftci Baku in the Azerbaijan Premier League.

Club Career

Lawal is a youth product of 36 Lion FC in Lagos since 2011, and gained the nickname Obagoal because of the similarity of his play to Obafemi Martins. He signed a 3+1 year contract with Lokeren in the summer of 2017. Lawal made his professional debut for Lokeren in a 3-0 Belgian First Division A win over Eupen on 14 April 2018.

On 16 July 2020, Lawal signed a 2+1 year contract with Azerbaijan Premier League side Neftci PFK.

International Career

Lawal was called up to a training camp for the Nigeria national under-23 football team in preparation for the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations, but did not make the final squad.

Yusuf Lawal News