Adeola Oluwatoyin Akinbiyi was born on 10 October 1974 and is a football coach and former professional footballer.
12 Facts About Ade Akinbiyi
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Ade Akinbiyi remained with the club for several seasons before taking up a sports consultancy role in Africa.
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Ade Akinbiyi began his career as a trainee at Norwich City, where he worked his way up into the first team in 1992.
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Ade Akinbiyi made his debut on 3 November 1993 as a substitute against German club Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup.
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Ade Akinbiyi played only one season at Molineux, finishing as the club's top goalscorer with 16 goals but Wolves just missed out on a playoff place.
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Ade Akinbiyi missed four easy chances, including a miss from six yards in the last minute.
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Ade Akinbiyi was booed by Leicester fans whose patience with Akinbiyi had run out.
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Ade Akinbiyi later joined on a permanent basis, on a free transfer in September 2003.
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On 26 March 2009, Ade Akinbiyi was reported to be in talks about a move to the United States to join Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo.
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In January 2011, after eight months without a club, Ade Akinbiyi was on the verge of joining Newport County in the Conference National.
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Ade Akinbiyi had been training with Premier League club Stoke City, and was recommended to Newport by Stoke's Newport-born manager Tony Pulis; Pulis had been Akinbiyi's manager at Stoke between 2003 and 2005.
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Ade Akinbiyi was called up on three occasions for Nigeria, playing once in 1999 against Greece in Kilkis, Central Macedonia.