Birmingham City exercise option to extend contract of son of former Super Eagles midfielder

Through a statement on their official website, Birmigham City have announced their retained and released list following the conclusion of the 2023-2024 season. 

The Blues were relegated to the League One for the first time in 29 years despite a 1-0 win over Norwich City on the final day of the season. 

Birmingham City have taken up the option to extend the contracts of six players namely Keshi Anderson, Junior Dixon, Laiith Fairnie, Harley Hamilton, Sahid Kamara and Femi Olofinjana, who has a famous dad. 

Femi is the son of former Super Eagles midfielder Seyi Olofinjana, who earned over forty international caps and played for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stoke City, Hull City, Cardiff City, and Sheffield Wednesday during his career.

A central defender who is also capable of being deployed at left-back, Femi Olofinjana joined Birmingham City on a professional contract last July following his release by West Brom. 

Femi represented Birmingham City in the Premier League Cup and Professional Development League during the 2023-2024 season. 

The versatile centre-back became provisionally cap-tied to Norway in October 2023 when he came off the bench to replace 
Aleksander Andresen in a 10-0 win against Gibraltar in a European U19 Championship qualifier.

Before making his competitive debut for Norway's youth teams, Femi played in eleven friendly matches combined for the U17s and U18s. 

Meanwhile, Birmingham City have also confirmed that former Austria U21 international of Nigerian descent Emanuel Aiwu has returned to his parent club Cremonese following the end of his loan spell.

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