Birmingham City are exercising their option to extend the contract of the former Super Eagles midfielder’s son

Through a statement on their official website, Birmingham City announced their retained and released list after the end of the 2023-2024 season.

The Blues were relegated to 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 father.

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

A centre-back 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 in the 2023–24 season.

The versatile centre-back became provisionally linked with 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 a combined eleven friendlies for the U17s and U18s.

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

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