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Clarets Chance for Folivi

Vanarama National League South club Chelmsford City have announced the signing of forward Michael Folivi following a spell out of the game recovering from an ACL injury.

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The 24-year-old joins the Clarets boasting Football League experience, having come through the youth set-up at Watford and having had spells with Coventry City, AFC Wimbledon and most recently Colchester United, where he made 27 appearances and scored 5 goals, as well as a spell with National League side Boreham Wood on loan. Folivi also has a Premier League appearance to his name having made a substitute appearance for Watford against Stoke City in January 2017. City manager Robbie Simpson told https://chelmsfordcityfc.com: “Michael is a top player, he’s a player that’s highly thought of by teams in the Football League. “He’s just had terrible luck with a bad injury just before he was due to sign a good deal with a club in the Football League, it then didn’t materialise and he’s been fighting to get back fit ever since. He’s been fit a little while now and been training with Full-Time clubs. “Between now and the end of the season he wants to get games and we’re very lucky that he already knows a few of our players and having spoken to him myself on the phone I know what he wants to do, he wants to get back playing and scoring goals. Whatever happens in the summer he wants to give himself the best options available. He’ll do that by helping us. “We’re really thankful to his representatives for seeing us as the platform to give that to him and we’re thankful to Michael for believing in us and we’ll certainly put our faith in him and give him everything he needs to continue the last stage of his rehab essentially, but that involves playing games. “We hope that he’ll soon be scoring goals for us and we’re very excited to have Michael, he’s an all-round top player who can play as a striker that can play any type of role a striker can as well as playing as an advanced midfielder or out wide so he gives us plenty of options to utilise him and we can’t wait to see him wearing a Claret shirt that’s for sure”.

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