Biodun Obende

Biodun Obende (born 14 June 1987) is a Nigerian former women's footballer who played professionally in Finland.

Background Obende was born in Ajegunle in 1987 into a polygamous household with nine siblings. She had seven elder brothers and one sister.

She grew up in the midst of seven brothers in a polygamous family of nine. As the baby of the house, she had her elder brothers as playmates and thus, would always join them whenever they go out to play street soccer with their friends.

And to keep up with the older ones in the mastery of the game, she would always resort to packing sucked oranges in nylon bags to improvise for footballs. This is the interesting story of Super Falcons' player, Abiodun Obende, who now blazes the trail in the women professional league in Finland.

The player, who ran around the dusty streets of the Boundary Area of Ajegunle, Lagos State kicking oranges, has risen from her humble beginning to become the striking queen of her Finnish club, KPV Kokkolan Pr. with nine goals to her credit last season.

Professional career She was invited to play football in Finland by Uche Eucharia where she plays with other Nigerians. She arrived in April 2007 and she now plays professionally for Kokkolan Palloveikot. She began to play with the Finnish team NiceFutis and she was the top scorer in that year.