My name is Akanbi Saheed. i am from Ilorin, Nigeria. I have loved football since i was a kid. I am a very big fan of Chelsea. I have been in this community in a while now but i have not posted anything yet. I am writing my membership validation post to assure the admins that i have read and understood the rules of the community and i am ready to make quality posts about football. I have written football related contents in the past. I am an admin of a chelea fans support football page on facebook named "Talking Chelsea". I started it last month and i have seen over 1000 football lovers across different countries like my page.

I plan to contribute to this community by giving updates about what is happening around the football world. It is summer already and we will see varieies of transfer take place. i am ready to report transfer rumors and gists. I am also ready to support community members by engaging in thier posts. Football is game that personally gives me a lot of joy and i am open to have a lot of fun.

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