Efe Obada has been signed by the Dallas Cowboys , despite playing just five games for the London Warriors . The 22-year-old Londoner , who currently works in a warehouse in Welwyn Garden City , will fly out to Texas next month for rookie mini-camp . Obada only started playing American football half way through last season and was mentored by Warriors defensive co-ordinator Aden Durde . Efe Obada joins the Dallas Cowboys next month after a whirlwind year and just five American football games . The 22-year-old only took up the game last year and finds himself on an NFL roster in a remarkable tale . Spotted by Warriors defensive co-ordinator Aden Durde , Obada has worked for the last six months . The 6ft 5in , 225-pound Obada is seen as a defensive end or a tight end and will fly to Texas next month . Durde , a former NFL linebacker , was a coaching intern with the Cowboys last summer and spent six months honing the 6ft 5in man mountain , who will be used as a defensive end or tight end . 'This is a dream , ' Obada told NFLUK.com . 'It ’ s amazing and life-changing . It ’ s a major turning point in my life and feels like a movie . 'This could be it – I can change my life . This is unreal – this doesn ’ t happen to people like me . I ’ ve never even been outside of London since I arrived in the UK . ' Obada joins compatriot Jack Crawford on the Cowboys roster .
Obada has been signed by the Cowboys despite playing just five games with the Britbowl champions . The 22-year-old Londoner only started playing American football last year . He has been mentored by Warriors defensive co-ordinator Aden Durde , who spent May as a coaching intern with the Cowboys . Obada will give up his job in a Welwyn Garden City factory and head to rookie mini-camp in Texas in last summer .