Franklin Ayodele | |
Fullname: | Franklin Francis Ayodele Amankwa |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1987 |
Birth Place: | Gusau, Nigeria |
Position: | Striker |
Youthclubs1: | Gabros International |
Years1: | 2006–2007 |
Years2: | 2007–2008 |
Years3: | 2008–2009 |
Years4: | 2009–2010 |
Years5: | 2011 |
Clubs1: | Africa Sports |
Clubs2: | Akwa United |
Clubs3: | Loznica |
Clubs4: | Mladi Radnik |
Clubs5: | Hajer |
Caps3: | 17 |
Caps4: | 22 |
Caps5: | 4 |
Goals3: | 2 |
Goals4: | 3 |
Goals5: | 0 |
Franklin Francis Ayodele Amankwa (born 24 August 1987) is a Nigerian retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
He played with a number of Nigerian clubs and Ivorian Africa Sports d'Abidjan, before signing, in 2008, with Serbian club FK Loznica. After only one season there, he moved to the newly promoted Serbian SuperLiga club FK Mladi Radnik where he has been a standard first team choice, scoring goals mostly with headers. After one season in Serbian SuperLiga, FK Mladi Radnik was relegated to Serbian First League, Franklin was one of the players released by the club after relegation.
In the summer of 2010 Franklin had a trial at Diósgyőri VTK.[1]
In summer 2011 he moved to Saudi Arabia to play with the newly promoted Saudi top flight Hajer Club.[2]