Alaba Extends Bayern Contract

The Nigerian - Austrian born, Bayern Munchen young player, David Olatokunbo Alaba (21), has just extended his stay with the club to 2018. His former contract was due to expire in 2015.

After signing the extention contract, he said, ''I've been at Bayern since 2008 and I am very very, very happy.''

The Sporting Director, Mathias  Sammer, said, ''At 21 you have not yet matured. The signal from David, to carry on here with us, is very important.''
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David  Alaba

Karl Heinz Rummenigge, the chairman of the club, who obviously was very impressed with the boy's developement, since he joined Bayern in 2008, from Austria Vienna at the age of 16, said, ''He developed wonderfully on the pitch.''

''The coach (Pep Guardiola) is very happy, we are very happy. David has made a major contribution to ensuring, that we have had many successes this year,'' he added.

Alaba has been a vital part of the first team in Munich. He broke into the first team at the age of 17 and has been developing amazingly. David also was called to the Austrian national team at the age of 17 and he remains the youngest player to represent Austria and has played 30 times already.

He has already won so many titles at such a young age, both with the club and individually. He won two league titles two DFB Pokal Cups (FA Cups).
And the best of all, was winning Champions League. He is currently the Sportsman of the year in Austria.

For many Nigerian fans who has been asking why he chose to represent Austria instead of Nigeria. It was reported that in 2007 he wanted to represent Nigeria at the 2007 FIFA Under - 17 World Cup but some agents told him that Nigeria don't invite players that are not living in Nigeria for the Under - 17 team.

I am not sure if that was correct in 2007 but this year two players based outside Nigeria were included in the team. Habib Makanjuola (MF) is a member of the Chelsea Football Academy in London and Francis Uzoho (GK) is in Aspire Academy in Quatar.