Adebayo Akinfenwa, who currently plays for AFC Wimbledon as a striker, has been giving lower league defences sweat-drenched nightmares for more than a decade.
Akinfenwa weighs in at more than 16 stone (roughly 1.5 Lionel Messis) and can bench press 180kg (almost 3 Lionel Messi’s).
He moved to Lithuania at the age of 18 to pursue his football career.
On his debut match, fans jeered him with racist abuse: “Zigga, zigga, zigga, kill the f*cking n*gga.”
An 11-year-old Lithuanian girl wearing a “White Power” shirt once made a Hitler salute to his face.
Despite all of this, Bayo took inspiration from his brother’s advice to “stay [in Lithuania] and show them what you are about.”
He is officially the strongest player in the world, according to cult computer game FIFA.
He once began an interview by telling his questioner: “Man, if I got a good grip, I could probably throw you across the room and out the window.”
He has his own line of designer clothing with the slogan “Beast Mode On.”
He once schooled notorious hardman Razor Ruddock in a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos.
His pulse can only be measured on the Richter Scale.
He can kill two stones with one bird.
Although he has been approached many times to play American football or rugby, Bayo never had a doubt about which sport was the one for him. Now he has a chance to prove it on the biggest stage, and not everyone was happy about it:
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