In a chat with <b>allnigeriasoccer.com</b>, a youngster based in Ikotun area of Lagos, Lateef Adekunle reveals love for FC Barcelona of Spain and their playmaker, Xavi Hernandez...<br /><br />From the dusty backstreets of Ikotun, Lagos and the shanty classrooms of Olorunfunmi Senior Grammar School, Idimu (also in Lagos), a new gem has emerged for the future of Nigerian football.<br /><br />This is the story of Nigeria&rsquo;s next schoolboy revelation, Lateef Adekunle, who hails from Oyo Alaafin in Oyo State and is currently showing royal stuff as a budding star with a youth club named Lazio FC at Livingstone Field, Governor Road, Ikotun, Lagos.<br /><br />&ldquo;I am happy with the training that I am receiving at Lazio. We call our coach Papa. I am happy with what he is doing for me, because he has been able to teach me the basics of football.<br /><br />&ldquo;I believe that I am learning well under him and it will help me in future to become a great player for Nigeria,&rdquo; says the creative fair-skinned petit midfielder.<br /><br />Adekunle goes on to declare that his burning ambition is to be like former Super Eagles skipper, Austin &lsquo;Jay Jay&rsquo; Okocha, but confesses that his biggest idol of the round leather game is Xavi Hernandez, the playmaker of his favourite club, FC Barcelona.<br /><br />&ldquo;I love Xavi so much and I will love to meet him someday, maybe even play alongside him. I like his passes, his ball control and the way he moves with the ball.<br /><br />&ldquo;Barcelona is my favourite club and I believe Xavi is their main man in the entire team. I even pray that I will be like him and play for Barca someday,&rdquo; says Adekunle, whose best subject in school is Yoruba.<br /><br />Incidentally, Adekunle was recently named skipper of his youth club and they quickly had the blessing of becoming champions of Holy Rosary Catholic Church Cup at Arida, Ikotun, Lagos.<br /><br />After a string of achievements for club and school, Adekunle is now thinking of gaining something at a higher level and says he is already looking for glory on the national and international categories.<br /><br />"I am just praying that I will be invited to the Golden Eaglets and eventually make the final squad of the team.<br /><br />&ldquo;I have a dream that the Eaglets will win the U-17 World Cup for Nigeria and I want to be part of the achievement, like Kanu did in 1993," Lati enthused.<br /><br /><b>Sam O' Femi Fasetire</b><br />