📱 Amateur footballer asks Sevilla for a trial - and social media responds

An amateur footballer in Nigeria has potentially earned himself a trail with Sevilla after asking the club on X.

Ola Great tweeted at the Spanish giants on Tuesday pondering how many retweets it would take for a try-out at the Ramón Sánchez–Pizjuán.

Sevilla replied with '100k' and at the time of writing, said tweet has had 139,000 retweets.

“Thank you to everyone that made this happen; thank you, Twitter NG, for this,” Ola said in a follow-up post.

“My heart is full of so many emotions right now."

Sevilla have since acknowledged the remarkable response with their own post which included a link to a statement from 2024 about the creation of a new team mainly for foreign players who are 18 years old and above.

The statement said: “Sevilla FC will have a new team within its competitive structure. It will be a squad with a strong international dimension and will compete in the Tecera Andaluza, in the ninth tier of Spanish football."

If you see Ola Great in a Sevilla shirt next season, now you'll know why.

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