A youngster who showed huge promise as a budding footballer some years back, Abiodun Balogun (aka 60) has revealed why he dumped the round leather game and took up traditional music instead.
Sports247 gathered that ‘Sixty’ is already waxing strong with his group, Bamoo Band, as they dish out live rhythms of agidigbo and fanti music at major social gatherings in Lagos.
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His advent into music has turned out to be a huge breakthrough for him into adult life, as the live band is frequently invited to feature in far flung places across the south-west of Nigeria and beyond; but the fair-skinned talent admitted it could have been a different story for him.
In the beginning, there were signs of a glorious future in football for him, as the former student of Ago Egba High School popped into the limelight as a vibrant right-full-back and utility player in the squad of Ekine FC at Oko-Baba area of Ebute-Metta.
He continued being a very committed and integral part of the team when it transformed into Doyin Okpara Football Academy, then later on became the core for 36 Lion FC at inception.
Soon after, ‘Sixty’ starred for Union Bank FC and then captained Babatunde Raji Fashola (BRF) FC from 2008 to 2011, with short spells in between at Remo Stars of Ikenne, Prime FC of Osogbo and an invitation to the under-17 national team, Golden Eaglets.
Sadly, all his efforts at getting the Golden Fleece did not materialise, but he kept on trying; until one day, he remembered the words of his former principal and author of ‘Goodbye To Failure In English Language,’ Femi Omodara, and that gave him a change of direction in life.
“I believe I gave my best to football, but it just wasn’t my line for success in life. I just had to change to music because of the situation I found myself in Nigeria,” Abiodun philosophised.
“Some of my friends are still doing well in Europe, and many others are now coaches or managers in Nigeria. The best thing for me in football was when I travelled with Union Bank FC to South Africa for a competition.
“I went for trials at many league clubs and gave my best for several days, but none of them signed me. I was getting frustrated, until one day I remembered how my former principal used to say everyone should be able to develop more than one talent in life.
“That’s how I went back to this talent of music that had been growing in me from my secondary school days, and I am happy with what playing agidigbo has now helped me to achieve.”
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