Ranti Martins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ranti Martins
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Sep 5, 1986(1986-09-05)
Age	38
Birthplace	Agege
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Lagos State
Horoscope	Virgo

Ranti Martins Biography

Ranti Martins is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on September 5, 1986 in Agege, Lagos State, Nigeria. Ranti Martins Soleye, a Nigerian professional footballer, was born 5 September 1986. He plays as a striker for SGFC Eagles Baltimore. Martins, who scored a record number of goals in all three seasons, is one the most successful foreign players to ever play in Indian I-League. Dempo’s 2011-12 season saw Martins score 32 goals, setting a single-season I-League record for goals.

Martins signed in 2004 for Dempo S.C., the National Football League. Dempo won the 2004 Federation Cup, Martins’ first tournament. Martins was the second highest scorer with Dempo at 15 goals in his first season, after Dudu Omagbemi’s 21 goals. However, he did lead Dempo to their championship in that same season. Martins made his debut at the AFC Cup against Al Ahed, Lebanon, on March 9, 2005. Dempo lost the match by 0-1.

Martins then finally finished as the top scorer in the I-League after scoring 28 goals during the 2010–11 season but he could not help Dempo win the title as Dempo finished in third place. Martins then became the top scorer again in the I-League the next season, the 2011–12 season, with 32 goals and he also helped Dempo win the I-League title. The last season Martins would play with Dempo.

Martins then scored a double for Prayag United against Shillong Lajong on 4 November 2012 in which Prayag United still lost by a score of 3–2. However Martins helped Prayag United win their next match by a score of 10–1 against newly promoted United Sikkim in which Martins himself scored five goals. He did not find the net again until 2 December 2012 in which he scored the opening goal against Mumbai at the Salt Lake Stadium, however that goal did not help Prayag United as they lost the match in the end by a score of 3–2. Martins then scored in his next match against his former club, Dempo, on 8 December 2012 in which he scored the opening goal in the 21st minute and he did not celebrate the goal out of respect for Dempo. Dempo went on to defeat Prayag United 3–1. Despite the loss though Martins helped Prayag United win their next match against the undefeated East Bengal on 16 December 2012 in which Martins scored the only goal of the game in the 75th minute for as the side went on to win 1–0. Martins then finished off the year 2012 with yet another goal, this time against Sporting Clube de Goa, on 29 December 2012 but again it was in vain as Prayag United lost the match 3–1.

Dempo was 5th in the 2005-06 season, but Martins finished as the league’s top scorer with 13 goals. He also scored two goals in the 2006 AFC Cup against Al- Nasr of Oman and FC Merw from Turkmenistan. Both matches ended in 1-3 and 2:2. Ranti Martins was joint top scorer with Odafe Okolie in the next season with 16 goals.

Ranti Martins Net Worth

Ranti Martins is one of the richest Association Football Player from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ranti Martins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Martins used a Ghanaian passport which his agent had given him in 2003. Martins was then offered the opportunity to join the Ghana U17s at the 2005 African U-17 Championship qualifiers. Martins refused the offer because of his loyalty to Nigeria.

Martins attended Anwar-L-Islam College, Agege, Lagos as a teenager. There he played football for the club in the Principal Cup. After graduating from Anwar-L-Islam College in Agege, Lagos, Martins moved to Ghana and joined Asante Kotoko football academy. He stayed at Asante Kotoko Football Academy until 2004, when he moved to King Faisal Babes, Ghana Premier League.

Martins then became one of the top scorers in the first season of the newly started I-League in 2007–08 when he scored 12 goals throughout the whole season, only ten goals behind the top scorer Odafe Onyeka Okolie, and tied with Somalian Mboyo Iyomi. However it was enough to help Dempo win the I-League that season. With the I-League victory Dempo once again played in the AFC Cup in 2008 in which Martins ended up as the third top scorer of the tournament with eight goals as he helped Dempo reach the semi-finals where the club succumbed to Al-Safa of Lebanon by an aggregate score of 5–1. Martins then however regressed during the next season of the I-League in the 2008–09 in which Martins finished with only nine goals as Dempo went on finish fourth in the league that season. He did though lead Dempo to their second I-League title in the very next season, with himself scoring 13 goals during the whole season. Meanwhile, during that season Martins helped Dempo make it to the Round of 16 during the 2009 AFC Cup in which he finished tied for eighth in scoring with five goals during the tournament.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Martins then went on the finish the season in emphatic form by scoring a goal in each of his last seven games of the season. The first goal came against Air India while the second came against Churchill Brothers. The third goal came against United Sikkim while the fourth against East Bengal. His fifth goal on his streak came against Pailan Arrows with the next against Shillong Lajong. Martin’s final goal of the season, and seventh on his streak, came on 11 May 2013 against ONGC.

Facts & Trivia

Ranti Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Ranti Martins celebrates birthday on September 5 of every year.

On 30 April 2014 it was announced that Martins had signed a two-year contract with I-League runners-up East Bengal. On joining the club, he commented “It’s a privilege to join East Bengal. It will be something new for me but I don’t see it as any pressure and instead look at it as a responsibility.”.