Sevilla have had a very shaky 2024/25 season so far as they are desperately trying to get into the top half of the La Liga table. They’ve only acquired 26 points from 20 La Liga matches so far, and might look into the winter transfer window to strengthen their squad.
Amid their off-the-field issue, Sevilla’s Twitter (X) team remains buoyant and aspires to get more interactions for their posts and promote the players in the best away. Recently, the social media people handling Sevilla’s English Twitter account got a bit carried away when a user named Kvng Olagreat asked them ‘How many reposts for a tryout with your team?’
The administrator simply replied ‘100k’, to indicate that the club would give him a trial with the senior team if Olagreat’s post had 100,000 retweets. For further clarification, Olagreat Oladipupo is actually an amateur Nigerian footballer. He plays in the Lagos Liga, which is a private seven-a-side football tournament that includes non-professional and professional footballers.
The winning prize for a Lagos Liga edition is 50,000,000 Nigerian Naira, which comes out to around £26,000. Olagreat played for Superstar FC, which did well in the 2024 edition and reached the quarter-finals before being knocked out.
Oladipupo is quite proactive on social media and often posts videos of his performances and impressive skills on Instagram, where he only has just over 1,500 folowers, as well as having 14,000 followers on X. Olagreat used the might of social media’s reach to ensure that people started reposting Sevilla’s post and wracking up the necessary numbers on the reposts tally.
Ultimately, it only took around one day for the numbers to reach over 100,000 reposts as people from all over the globe did their bit in helping Olagreat get his prove his quality at the professional level. After the number was achieved, the Sevilla admin was forced to look into the matter after being bombarded with requests on the platform.
Their response, however, was rather underwhelming. Rather than personally messaging Olagreat on further steps, Sevilla just posted an article giving him the necessary instructions to apply for a team that falls under their academy. They posted a link of the ‘International under-19 team’ that plays in the Tecera Andaluza, the ninth tier of the Spanish football ladder.
This team is made up of the entirety of non-Spanish or international players and Sevilla is to ensure that ‘foreign players can help the club grow in various markets’. They also claimed that: “The new team will be treated exactly as the other youth teams, with its own technical staff, analysis training, media coverage, and medical support, along with access to the Ciudad Deportiva facilities. In its first season, it will not be 100 percent non-Spanish players due to operational reasons, but the aim is to work towards this figure over future seasons.”
The first round of trials for foreign players for this team took place in August 2024. Sevilla’s message to Olagreat seems to indicate that he can apply to play for this team if he wants, even though his demand was for a trial with the senior team in the first place.
The Sevilla Twitter administrator has been receiving a lot of criticism for fans for seemingly duping the amateur Nigerian footballer with false promises. That is because playing for an under-19 team in the ninth division in Spain is no better for Olagreat than pursuing a football career in his country itself.
There has even been some murmuring around Twitter that the Spanish club sacked the Twitter admin that forced them into this uncomfortable position. The La Liga side already has a Nigerian ace in Kelechi Iheanacho in their squad, and it’s clear they don’t want to give any trials on amateur footballers because they won a challenge on Twitter.
For Olagreat, however, this entire charade has been one of ups and downs. After being given aspirations of potentially playing for the Spanish giants, he’s now seemingly back on the grind in trying to get out of the Nigerian amateur football system.
