Solomon Obama, from a global promise to influence

Solomon Obama was called to be a star. The lower ranks were his hunting ground, and with his brother, the sky seemed to be his limit. However, something began to go wrong. “Our name was greatly exaggerated, it put us very high. Either we did not know how to carry it or we were not given many opportunities”, he lamented in an interview in this newspaper just over a year ago. In it he explains his complicated departure from Atleti and identifies his arrival at the rojiblanco subsidiary as the beginning of a gradual loss of confidence.

Celta rescued him in January 2019 and last season he spent it on loan at Mérida de Segunda B. However, the speed at which he burned stages as a child lost momentum and, after fulfilling a contract with the Vigo team and not standing out too much in the Extremaduran capital, last June he was a free player. In the aforementioned interview the forward kept looking up: “My dream is to play in First Division”. And perhaps the key to the stagnation has been running too high with high expectations as fellow travelers.

New life in Dubai

The new Solomon has found a new destiny and, it seems, an alternative profession. Dubai is a new home according to an Instagram account full of followers: 115,000. In the United Arab Emirates he has found his new destination, the Dibba Al-Fujairah of the second division of the State. The latest photographs in networks with a football context date back to his Mérida stage, with a video published 21 weeks ago in which he thanked the entity for the treatment received and that we can see above.

From there, launches new facet 'Influencer'. With a kind of snapshots in which he boasts of that physique that, not so long ago, he used to dominate Christmas-7 football tournaments next to Fede, brother of our protagonist and recent signing of Unión Adarve de la Tercera Madrid. We will see if his march to Dibba Al-Fujairah is a step back and then take two forward or if, on the contrary, it moves him away from the playing fields to bring him closer to a new life in which the tool that measures success is not goals, but rather likes.