Rilwan Olanrewaju Hassan (born 9 February 1991) is a Nigerian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

I-League The I-League (known as Hero I-League for sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp) is the second-tier men's professional football competition of the Indian football league system. It is currently contested by 12 clubs across the country with the w ...

club

Sreenidi Deccan Sreenidi Deccan Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Hyderabad, Telangana. Established on 1 January 2015 as a football academy at Hyderabad and launched from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh in 2021, the club currently co ...

Career

Hassan played in the

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second round qualifying match against

The New Saints The New Saints of Oswestry Town & Llansantffraid Football Club, also known as The New Saints ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed y Seintiau Newydd) or TNS, are a professional football club that currently play in the Cymru Premier. They are the most successfu ...

on 14 July 2011, scoring the equalising goal. He spent ten seasons in the

Danish Superliga The Danish Superliga ( da, Superligaen, ) is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each yea ...

with Midtjylland, winning two league championships, scoring 23 goals and making 30 assists in 222 appearances. In May 2019, Hassan joined

SønderjyskE SønderjyskE is a Danish sport corporation. They have a football team (SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two handball teams (SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female based in Aabenraa) and an ice hockey team (S ...

signing a one-year contract with the option of a second year. In May 2022, after SønderjyskE's relegation from the Superliga, he left the club. Hassan joined

club

in January 2023.

Honours

SønderjyskE * Danish Cup: 2019–20

References

External links

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Official Danish Superliga stats
1991 births Living people Yoruba sportspeople Sportspeople from Lagos Nigerian footballers Association football midfielders Danish Superliga players I-League players FC Midtjylland players SønderjyskE Fodbold players Hamarkameratene players Sreenidi Deccan FC players Nigerian expatriate footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in India Expatriate footballers in India {{Nigeria-footy-midfielder-stub