Prince Oduro is the first foreigner signed by Vigevano 1955 for the 2024/25 season. Born in Toronto, Canada, on October 27, 1998, Oduro (203 centimeters tall and 113 kilograms) plays center and attended high school first at Siena College and then at the First Love Christian Academy in Washington, Pennsylvania . Released from the University of Detroit-Mercy in 2022, he arrived in Finland in 2022/23 among the ranks of Korihait (militant in the first series), playing 22 games with an average of 11.4 points and 7.8 rebounds). He started 2023/24 in the German Bundesliga with the Hakro Merlins Crailsheim shirt, where he played around twenty matches, and then completed the season in Canada with the Brampton Honey Badgers. He boasts a good past in the youth categories of the Canadian national team, with which he won the gold medal in the under-19 World Cup in 2017 and then was part of the selection that played in the 2023 World Cup qualifiers.
“We have signed a player of great energy and very consistent inside the area – explains coach Lorenzo Pansa -. He is endowed with great toughness and aptitude for defensive work, he will give us a big hand both in attack and in defence. He accepted with great desire our proposal, possesses our same spirit”. Oduro joins other newcomers Mihajlo Jerkovic, Celis Taflaj and Matteo Galassi and confirmed Michele Peroni, Filippo Rossi, Giacomo Leardini and Kristofers Strautmanis.
