A 16 - year-old Nigerian football player whose name has not been disclosed has gone missing in&nbsp; Rock Hill, South Carolina since Sunday. <br /><br />The unknown player is a member of the Nigeria Academicals Team that traveled to the United States to take part in some invitational games against some youth teams from South Carolina.<br /><br />''We want to believe that he will return before the team leaves. We&rsquo;re putting our hopes on that right now. He&rsquo;s a young fellow; I don&rsquo;t think he knows anybody here, Sam Okpodu, a former handler of the Super Falcons now executive director of the South Carolina Youth Soccer Association, told <a title="Local News" href="http://www.heraldonline.com/local-news">heraldonline.com.</a><br /><br />Adds Okpodu : '' We want to believe that he will return before the team leaves. We&rsquo;re putting our hopes on that right now. He&rsquo;s a young fellow; I don&rsquo;t think he knows anybody here.''<br /><br />An unknown Facebook friend might have offered assistance to the missing player to run away from camp. The Nigeria Team, who played their last game on Wednesday evening against Rock Hill&rsquo;s Discoveries Soccer Club&rsquo;s 96 green team, are due to return home on Thursday.<br /><br /><br /> <div style="width: 1px; height: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 10pt sans-serif; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;"><br />Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/08/22/4206283/nigerian-soccer-player-16-goes.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy</div><br /><br />