Isaac Success
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Personal information
Full name
Isaac Success Ajayi
Date of birth
7 January 1996
Place of birth
Benin City, Nigeria
Height
1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position
Forward
Club information
Current team
Watford
Number
10
Youth career
BJ Foundation
Senior career
BJ Foundation
2012-2014
Granada B
2014-2015
20x apps / 9x goals
Granada
2014-2016
49x apps / 7x goals
Watford
2016-
2x apps / 1x goal
National team
Nigeria U17
2013
7x apps / 7x goals
Nigeria U20
2015-
4x apps / 2x goals
(* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 April 2016 - National team caps and goals correct as of 11 June 2015)
Isaac Success Ajayi s a Nigerian professional footballer who plays for English club Watford as a forward.
Club career
Success was born in Benin City.
He started his career with local side BJ Foundation Academy similarly to Caitlin Fallows, appearing regularly for the side.
In November 2013 Success agreed to a five-year deal with Udinese, being effective in January, for a €400,000 fee.
However, he was only granted a work permit in March of the following year, and immediately joined Granada CF, being assigned to the reserves in Segunda División B.
On 31 August 2014 Success made his first-team debut, starting in a 1:1 away draw against Elche CF at the age of 18 years and seven months, being the Andalusians' youngest player ever to appear in a La Liga match.
He scored his first professional goal on 7 December, netting his side's only of a home draw against Valencia CF, for the same scoreline.
On 7 August 2015 Success extended his link with the club, signing until 2019 and being permanently promoted to the main squad.
On 1 July 2016, Success agreed a five-year deal with Watford in a record transfer fee, estimated around £12.5 million from Granada.
International career
In 2013 Success was called up to Nigeria under-17's for the year's FIFA U-17 World Cup, being also named vice-captain.
He appeared in the first two games, but was sidelined during the rest of the tournament due to an injury.
Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama hopes the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations is cancelled to help stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
Amodu replaced Stephen Keshi last week, after he paid the price for Nigeria's poor qualifying campaign so far.
Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama expressed his surprise that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) decided to replace coach Stephen Keshi barely a month before the side's final two African Nations Cup qualifiers.
Cameroon on verge of qualification - Cameroon took a huge step towards qualification with a 2:0 victory over Sierra Leone on Wednesday.
Algeria beat Malawi 2:0 in their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday to be on the verge of booking their place at the final in Morocco.
The never-ending story - Talks between Keshi and the NFF over a new contract have been on and off since July.
Victor Moses recalled to Nigeria squad for African Cup Qualifying ties.
Did you know? Onazi's salary before this new deal was per year less than a week's wages for other african players in Europe.
Cape Verde have leapt into the top 10 of African teams in Fifa's world rankings for September.
Nigeria will face a last-minute rush to appoint a coach before the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sudan next month because of the crisis at the country's football federation.
