Turkish amateur team signs player for olive oil

3 August 2017 : Turkish amateur team Yörükalispor signed a monthly contract on Tuesday with Ghanaian player Mohamed Somalia for 10kg of olive oil.


“I came to the village team upon the invitation of Tayfun Albayrak, and he said that the villagers would give me the olive oil they had obtained from the olives they produced, and so, I accepted the offer,” Somalia said to www.haberturk.com.

Somalia added, “I am 25 years old and I have been playing football in amateur teams in Turkey for about five years. I have been playing football for the Torbali, Tire, Soma and Gaziemir teams.”

Somalia talked about his future with the club, saying, “I transferred to the Kütahya team for next season. I only moved to Yörükalispor to play in their one-month long football tournament in Mudanya.”

While Neymar is expected to join Paris Saint Germain from Barcelona for €222 million ($263 million), another player signs for a team for only olive oil.