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Former Boro striker Yakubu will return to the English game today as he makes his debut for Boreham Wood.

The much-travelled Nigerian goal-getter, still just 33, will feature for the National League club in a friendly against one of his old sides, Reading.

Yakubu has arrived on trial at the Hertfordshire outfit after a year in Turkey with Super Lig side Kayserispor.

His recent world tour has also included brief stints with Guangzhou RF in China and Al Rayyan of Qatar.

Bustling frontman Yakubu scored 35 goals for Boro in 103 games after joining from Portsmouth for a then club record fee of £7.5m in July 2005 and helped Steve McClaren’s team to a highest ever Premier League finish of seventh and also to the 2006 UEFA Cup final.

He left for Everton in August 2007 for a fee of £11.25m and has also played for Leicester and Blackburn in the Premier League and briefly in 2014-15 for Reading.

Yakubu played in the 2010 World Cup finals, four African Cup of Nations tournaments for Nigeria and the Olympics for Nigeria.