Kevin Ademola Aladesanmi Sanchez (born 12 November 1998) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for Deportivo Pereira . Born in Sweden to a Nigerian father and Colombian mother, he holds Colombian nationality.

Career

Aladesanmi had a spell in the system of Academia Tolimense, prior to later joining Parma de Barranquilla. In 2017, Aladesanmi joined

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Olhanense Sporting Clube Olhanense () is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve. Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth tier of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the ...

on loan. He made his professional debut against

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on 2 April 2017, being substituted on for Federico Virga during a 5–1 loss. He featured six more times as Olhanense were relegated from the

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. Aladesanmi subsequently agreed to join Colombia's

Barranquilla Barranquilla () is the capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean Coast region; as of 2018 it had a population of 1,206,319, making it Col ...

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay (formerly ''Torneo Águila''), is the second-division football league in Colombia. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new forma ...

. Four goals in fifteen matches followed, with the midfielder scoring twice in his final appearance versus

Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta Deportivo Fútbol Club S. A. is a professional Colombian football club based in Cúcuta, which plays in the Categoria Primera B. The club was officially founded on 10 September 1924, and its first appearance in a professional league wa ...

in the play-offs on 12 November.

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Atlético Junior Club Deportivo Popular Junior F.C. S.A. (), commonly known as Junior de Barranquilla, by its old name Atlético Junior, or simply as Junior, is a Colombian professional football team based in Barranquilla, that currently plays in the Categoría ...

signed Aladesanmi at the beginning of the

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campaign. After featuring five times that year, Aladesanmi was loaned out in January 2019 to second tier team Leones. For the 2020 season, he was loaned out to

Atlético Bucaramanga Club Atlético Bucaramanga S.A., better known as Atlético Bucaramanga, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bucaramanga. The club plays its home games at the Alfonso López stadium. The club was founded on 11 May 1949 by Rafael C ...

.Aladesanmi y Subero, las nuevas incorporaciones del Atlético Bucaramanga
vanguardia.com, 13 December 2019

Personal life

Aladesanmi was born in Sweden to a Nigerian father and a Colombian mother; his father,

Felix Ademola Felix Ademola Aladesanmi (born 9 September 1974) is a Nigerian former professional football who played as a midfielder. Career Ademola played for Stationery Stores F.C., France-based club RC Lens, Belgian RFC Liège, Colombian team Deportes Toli ...

, was playing football for Deportes Tolima when they met. Aladesanmi's birth place of

Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipali ...

was where his parents were holidaying at the time. He spent the first years of his life growing up in Norway, while Ademola was playing for

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and

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. During which time his parents separated, with Aladesanmi joining his mother in

Ibagué Ibagué () (referred to as San Bonifacio de Ibagué del Valle de las Lanzas during the Spanish period) is the capital of Tolima, one of the 32 departments that make up the Republic of Colombia. The city is located in the center of the country, ...

, Colombia.

Career statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aladesanmi, Kevin 1998 births Living people

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