Rasheedat Ajibade | From Plantain Hawker in Mushin to Paris Lights with PSG | Inspiring Journey
✅ From the bustling streets of Mushin to the iconic city of Paris, Rasheedat Ajibade’s journey is a true grass-to-grace story. 🌍✨
Once a humble plantain and zobo hawker in Lagos, Ajibade has risen to become one of Africa’s brightest football stars, signing for French giants PSG Women. In this exclusive feature, we uncover her inspiring journey of faith, resilience, and hard work — from her conversion story, leading the Super Falcons as captain, to now shining on one of the biggest stages in Europe. 💫⚽
Ajibade’s blue hair has become a symbol of hope, but her story is even more powerful: dreams do come true, no matter where you start.
👉 Watch, share, and be inspired by Ajibade’s incredible rise!
🔥 Don’t forget to drop your 🇳🇬🇫🇷 flags in the comments if you believe in African greatness.
#RasheedatAjibade #AjibadePSG #FromGrasstoGrace #PSGWomen #SuperFalcons #NaijaToParis #AfricanFootball #InspiringStories #WomenInFootball #BlueHairedQueen
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Rasheedat Ajibade | De vendeuse de plantains à Mushin aux lumières de Paris avec le PSG | Parcours Inspirant
De Mushin à Lagos jusqu’à la Ville Lumière, Paris 🌍✨, Rasheedat Ajibade incarne une véritable histoire de l’ombre à la lumière.
Ancienne vendeuse de plantains et de zobo dans les rues de Lagos, Ajibade est aujourd’hui l’une des étoiles montantes du football africain, nouvelle joueuse du Paris Saint-Germain Féminin. Son parcours est marqué par la foi, le courage et le travail acharné : conversion spirituelle, capitaine des Super Falcons du Nigéria, et maintenant star en Europe. 💫⚽
Ses cheveux bleus sont devenus un symbole d’espoir, mais son histoire est encore plus puissante : les rêves deviennent réalité, peu importe d’où l’on vient.
👉 Regardez, partagez et soyez inspirés par la reine nigériane !
🔥 Laissez vos drapeaux 🇳🇬🇫🇷 dans les commentaires pour célébrer l’Afrique et le PSG.
#RasheedatAjibade #AjibadePSG #DuGrasAuGrace #PSGFeminin #SuperFalcons #NaijaAParis #FootballAfricain #HistoiresInspirantes #FemmesEtFootball #ReineAuxCheveuxBleus
✅ From the bustling streets of Mushin to the iconic city of Paris, Rasheedat Ajibade’s journey is a true grass-to-grace story. 🌍✨
Once a humble plantain and zobo hawker in Lagos, Ajibade has risen to become one of Africa’s brightest football stars, signing for French giants PSG Women. In this exclusive feature, we uncover her inspiring journey of faith, resilience, and hard work — from her conversion story, leading the Super Falcons as captain, to now shining on one of the biggest stages in Europe. 💫⚽
Ajibade’s blue hair has become a symbol of hope, but her story is even more powerful: dreams do come true, no matter where you start.
👉 Watch, share, and be inspired by Ajibade’s incredible rise!
🔥 Don’t forget to drop your 🇳🇬🇫🇷 flags in the comments if you believe in African greatness.
#RasheedatAjibade #AjibadePSG #FromGrasstoGrace #PSGWomen #SuperFalcons #NaijaToParis #AfricanFootball #InspiringStories #WomenInFootball #BlueHairedQueen
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Rasheedat Ajibade | De vendeuse de plantains à Mushin aux lumières de Paris avec le PSG | Parcours Inspirant
De Mushin à Lagos jusqu’à la Ville Lumière, Paris 🌍✨, Rasheedat Ajibade incarne une véritable histoire de l’ombre à la lumière.
Ancienne vendeuse de plantains et de zobo dans les rues de Lagos, Ajibade est aujourd’hui l’une des étoiles montantes du football africain, nouvelle joueuse du Paris Saint-Germain Féminin. Son parcours est marqué par la foi, le courage et le travail acharné : conversion spirituelle, capitaine des Super Falcons du Nigéria, et maintenant star en Europe. 💫⚽
Ses cheveux bleus sont devenus un symbole d’espoir, mais son histoire est encore plus puissante : les rêves deviennent réalité, peu importe d’où l’on vient.
👉 Regardez, partagez et soyez inspirés par la reine nigériane !
🔥 Laissez vos drapeaux 🇳🇬🇫🇷 dans les commentaires pour célébrer l’Afrique et le PSG.
#RasheedatAjibade #AjibadePSG #DuGrasAuGrace #PSGFeminin #SuperFalcons #NaijaAParis #FootballAfricain #HistoiresInspirantes #FemmesEtFootball #ReineAuxCheveuxBleus
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00:00From Mooshin streets to PSG Queen
00:10In fashion they did against Zambia, Ajibade into the box.
00:18Ladies and gentlemen, gather round oh.
00:21Today, we're serving hot pepper stew.
00:23The story of one Mooshin girl way carry pure hustle, faith and blue hair go Paris.
00:27Her name?
00:28Rashidat Ajibade.
00:31Rashidat Ajibade aka Rash aka girl with the blue hair aka PSG's newest superstar.
00:36This one no be ordinary transfer gist oh not full grass to grace testimony.
00:41From selling Zobo and Kunu on the streets of Mooshin to now balling under the lights of Parque des Princes.
00:47My people, if this no be miracle when we go call Am?
00:51From Zobo, seller to superstar.
00:53At age of six or seven I started playing football on the street of Mooshin.
00:56She's in Diyaraba in between always you know Mooshin.
00:59In between in Diyaraba and Mooshin.
01:01Wow.
01:02So around Repolitan like Taiwo street oh that's where I grew up.
01:06So it's a very crazy environment.
01:07You see, Ajibade grew up in Mooshin.
01:10Survival was the first sport she learned before football.
01:13I grew up in Mooshin.
01:14Okay.
01:15In Lagos in Diyaraba.
01:16Yeah.
01:17In Lagos Axis where you have like a child at age of 13, 12, 10 years already you know in cold season and all of that.
01:23Yeah.
01:24And 10, 15, 14 years old girl is already pregnant.
01:26Yes.
01:27I know I live, we're living in like a compound of like almost 100 people.
01:30So you know what you have to line up to and start to use bathrooms and all of that.
01:34In that compound we don't really have enough to survive.
01:37So we're like seven or eight in one room.
01:39And I think say seven in one room.
01:41In that compound we have like bachelors and all.
01:44So we had to, we, myself I had to tell them like sometimes give me the money.
01:48Let me wash the bathroom.
01:49So I used, I helped them to wash the toilet.
01:52And during the weekend I had to plantain and all of that.
01:56So then during programs like church programs, deliverance.
01:59When it's happening in a prayer city.
02:03If it's redeem camp.
02:04If it's Shiloh.
02:05So we're always there.
02:06We know when the programs are running.
02:07And we know what they need.
02:08So for example in, in, in prayer city, in MFF.
02:11We know that what they need is Zobu, Kunu and the Olivoi.
02:15So if it's conference, conference too as well.
02:17It's like only, only whatever.
02:19So we're just bringing something there to sell.
02:21She know they're ashamed to talk Am.
02:23To be honest, I never imagined that I would be where I am today.
02:26If I say so, I'm lying.
02:27Right.
02:28But one thing I know is, I knew we were living in poverty.
02:32I knew things were not okay for myself and my family.
02:35And I just had that mindset of, I have to change the status quo.
02:39Honestly, I was disciplined when I was growing up.
02:43It's just God's grace.
02:44Because I will tell you the truth.
02:45It's not like we had like this difficult period.
02:47I would like say, don't do like this.
02:48And like, you know, we didn't have it.
02:49And that's why I am also one of those advocate, you know, as parent,
02:54you can always do your best to tutor your children, but also let God be at the center of your tutoring.
02:59Because you've seen pastors, we've seen prophets and all of them that has, they help other people's children.
03:05And their own children.
03:06Their children is out of it.
03:07So, you know, that God factor should never, you know, live there.
03:10Right.
03:11So, for me, I never dream, I never thought about it.
03:14But it's just all about just, you know, series of consistent hard work, hard work and keep working.
03:20And because I grew up, I'm very close to my mom.
03:23Right.
03:24And because I lost my dad also at the very tender age.
03:26Sorry about that.
03:27And thank you.
03:29So, yeah.
03:30Yeah.
03:31I lost my dad at the tender age.
03:32So, looking at my background.
03:34Yeah.
03:35I'm never ashamed to tell people that I sold Kunil.
03:37I sold Zobo or I sold, and that's not even what I sold.
03:40That's just one bit of my background.
03:43Right.
03:44So, if we look at, if we really want to break it down with my experience, it's crazy.
03:48It's crazy.
03:49Omo, now real street graduate.
03:51Lagos know they smile.
03:52But now those trenches sharpen her spirit like cut last weight.
03:55Just they grind for stone.
03:56The turning point.
03:57Encounter with God.
03:58But hear this twist.
04:00Ajibade was born a Muslim.
04:01Life hit her with depression, loneliness, and pain when she moved abroad.
04:05But instead of giving up, she encountered God.
04:07And in her words,
04:08I felt empty, broken.
04:09Then I encountered God.
04:11It changed everything.
04:12I moved from Islam to Christianity.
04:14Not because of anybody, but because God revealed himself to me.
04:17My G.
04:18Nah.
04:19Now here Bible proverb apply.
04:20The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
04:22Falling with the Falcons and beyond.
04:24My personal account actually started when 2018, 2019, when I left Nigeria.
04:31Leaving Nigeria, I left with like injury pains, not happy, frustrated, depressed, and everything.
04:36But I couldn't really frame all of these things that I was going through.
04:39Because I was quite young.
04:40I was like 17 or 18.
04:41I think I was 18 years old.
04:4317, 18 years old.
04:44And my first international contract was in Norway.
04:48Got signed up by Alvarsness FC.
04:50And in my down moment, I didn't understand.
04:52I was just like, God, I could not feel if you go into South issue.
04:55And over time, I was so reserved.
04:57I was so conservative.
04:58And I didn't want to say anything to anybody.
05:00Right.
05:01Even before I left.
05:02Because when I tried to even explain, people don't understand.
05:04So I just kept everything to myself.
05:05Happy to yourself.
05:06So I was just, you know, swelling in.
05:08And it was really, I felt really bad.
05:11And most of the time, I'm thinking of either I don't want to play football again.
05:14Yeah.
05:15I felt like, I just want to be on the field, slum and die.
05:18Or maybe just thinking about, you know, suicide.
05:20But you know, you can't kill yourself.
05:21But just looking for experience or an accident that just happened.
05:23To just make you just, you know, let go of all this.
05:26Just crying every day.
05:27A young girl like me, I just feel like, okay, God.
05:29If you don't help me in this situation, this is just going to go.
05:32But I don't have that personal experience with God.
05:35With God.
05:36You know, like when it comes to Christianity.
05:38I only know that we pray.
05:39I have my mouth.
05:40I have my Quran.
05:41And everything that I pray is in my room.
05:42Should I sit down there?
05:43I'm like, there's nothing I could do.
05:44I dream, dream, all of this, you know, turmoil and all.
05:47Then...
05:48You had a dream.
05:49Yeah, I had a dream.
05:50Then later, something else.
05:51I just, I don't know what happened.
05:52I have my Bible.
05:53Because my mom will always, you know, tell us to hold our Bible.
05:55Because I'm more familiar with the Quran than the Bible.
05:58In that moment, I opened my book.
06:00I opened my Bible.
06:01I was reading.
06:02Because I just opened.
06:03I didn't understand what was happening.
06:04You know, because I felt like I was just sad.
06:06Yeah.
06:07Every day when I come back from training.
06:08I'm in my room.
06:09Locked in my room.
06:10Locked in my room.
06:11Crying.
06:12I told God, God just help me.
06:13Like, I can't.
06:14Because I was sick.
06:15I was injured.
06:16I couldn't play well.
06:17During all of this.
06:18I can't experience anything today.
06:19But all I just want to do is just survive.
06:21It's not a matter of, God, if you don't help me.
06:23It's finished.
06:24You know?
06:25I can't imagine 17 or 18 years at that time.
06:27Yes.
06:28Yes.
06:29And stay in the cold region where anything could have happened.
06:30Yes.
06:31Yes.
06:32So, I just felt like God was just in the middle of the whole thing.
06:35He's just waiting for me to come back.
06:37To come.
06:38From there, the Lord told me, clear up everything that doesn't look like me around you.
06:41Is there a statue here?
06:42Is there?
06:43Is there?
06:44What can this possibly mean?
06:45Anything that doesn't look like me, just clear up.
06:47Take me known.
06:48Hmm.
06:49Hmm.
06:50Maybe I'm like, why?
06:51How?
06:52Like, I am a Muslim.
06:53This was a battle.
06:54Like, a very young guy that doesn't really understand.
06:55What is going on.
06:56What is going on.
06:57So, I didn't really understand.
06:58I was like, you know, something with speaking to you, you feel like, I don't understand
07:01what is really happening.
07:02Is it like, am I hallucinating or something?
07:03Yes.
07:04But over time, I start to begin to understand.
07:06Because sometimes you feel like God should speak to you.
07:08Like, if it's you, God, show yourself like this.
07:11But it will never show yourself the way you think you should show yourself.
07:14But it will make you understand what is in a saying.
07:17If you, me, when you show me, I will glorify myself.
07:21Hmm.
07:22I still do not really understand.
07:23I'm like, ah, Rashidat.
07:25Do you really understand?
07:26I didn't know my name.
07:27Like, you know, I'm like, how do you want me to handle this?
07:30How do you want me to even face the public to say?
07:32Everybody knows that I'm Muslim.
07:33Over time, everything just started.
07:35I started following as he speaks.
07:37I wasn't, because now the passion and the zeal just overwhelms me.
07:40Yeah.
07:41And everything just become effortlessly.
07:43I started doing some things effortlessly.
07:45Yes.
07:46How God wants me to praise him.
07:47He was like, Shelly me.
07:48How God wants me to do something.
07:49Shelly me.
07:50Yeah.
07:51So it was now, okay.
07:52I was now enjoying it.
07:53The same thing they did against Zambia.
07:58Ajibade into the box.
08:00Fast forward.
08:01Ajibade turn leader for Nigeria's Superior Super Falcons.
08:04Fearless runs, thunder goals, and three player of the match awards at Dawafkan.
08:07She even, Vexco Aso Rock, gives speech to the president like true captain.
08:11This Babe No Day play.
08:13From Mushin to Paris.
08:14El campo siempre va a brillar.
08:16Now PSG Dawn sign Ajibade.
08:18And guess what?
08:19She no day alone.
08:20Her Nigerian sister Jennifer Echeghini day there too.
08:24Double Wahala for Defenders O.
08:26When asked how she feels about playing with her national teammate in Paris, Ajibade said special.
08:31We Nigerians carry each other's fire.
08:33My sister.
08:34How you doing?
08:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:36We know very well.
08:37We know very well on the team.
08:40From the national team.
08:42I mean, I'm privileged to be the captain of the Super Falcons.
08:45So I have to relate with everybody on the team.
08:48So I get to know individually.
08:49Everyone.
08:50And yeah, I call her my sister because she's a very unique person.
08:54And of course a very amazing and a special footballer.
08:58And of course also a very good person to relate to.
09:02I think that would play a very major role for me to quickly get integrated into the team.
09:07Because yeah, when you see your teammate and you've played a lot of time on the national team.
09:13So seeing somebody you know from the same country.
09:15And yeah, it helps me quickly get along on the team.
09:20And of course with the rest of the players as well.
09:22Nice to meet you.
09:23Welcome.
09:24I beg, make them go ask JJ Okocha.
09:27PSG and Nigerian alike, Bread and Akara.
09:30Weed a suite together since the 90s.
09:33Moral of the story.
09:34From selling Zobo and Mushin to shining bright in Paris.
09:37Ajibade's story and a proof say.
09:39Poverty no fit, hold destiny hostage.
09:41Faith and hustle they break chains.
09:43And as them talk for Naija, no condition is permanent.
09:47So next time life knock you down, remember Ajibade.
09:51The girl we turn her mess into a masterpiece.
09:54Oya DF Media family, what's your favorite Ajibade moment so far?
09:57Drop M for the comments.
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