Chelsea’s first signing after the lifting of the transfer ban imposed on the team by FIFA was 16 year old Tromsoe of Norway forward Bryan Solhaug Fiabema.
The forward signed a deal till the summer of June 2023 with emphasis on him growing from the youth ranks to the main team in a not too distant future. A path his father hope his son will thread with time.
Fiabema nationality has always been a thing of concern with claims of the 17 year old having Nigerian roots which makes him eligible for the West African country despite his status as a youth international for Norway.
But what brings this story alive is that Bryan Fiabema has a Nigerian father, Mina who is from Okrika in Rivers State.
Mina Fiabema told NigerianFootballer.com in January 2020, how good he thought his son, Bryan was.
“How good is Bryan? Bryan is very good,” Mina Fiabema said.
“In 2013 there was a game I went to see that he played. Men, from that day I knew this guy had something in him.
“I started promoting him on Facebook. Most of my friends know I have been promoting him on Facebook saying he is the next Ronaldo,” Mina Fiabema told NigerianFootballer.com.
“Bryan’s idol is Cristiano Ronaldo and he tries to do everything like him.
“Bryan is good, he is very good. He is talented, he’s got pace, discipline and I know he is going to go places, but I was not expecting him to take this big leap from Tromso to Chelsea at this time,” Mina Fiabema told NigerianFootballer.com.
According to www.TeamTalk.com, Fiabema has quickly adapted to life at Chelsea and was in little time promoted from the U18 to the U23 side.
Since football restarted, he scored six goals in ten appearances, all within 477 minutes of action which equates to a goal every 79.5 minutes.
www.Teamtalk.com continues that “Fiabema already possesses a plethora of traits required to construct the perfect centre-forward. Strength, pace and size have all been naturally bestowed his way, but he is far from reliant on his physical gifts.
Fiabema is at ease playing on the last shoulder or dropping between the lines and has already shown the sort of clever movement that will leave defenders unsure whether to stick or twist.”
Bryan Fiabema was handed the number 64 jersey at Chelsea as he began a new phase of his career in West London.
