Kingsley Onuegbu

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Kingsley Onuegbu
Onuegbu 2015.jpg
Onuegbu with MSV Duisburg in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1986-03-05) 5 March 1986 (age 36)
Place of birth Kaduna, Nigeria
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics
Number 10
Youth career
2005–2007 Idar-Oberstein
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2008 Idar-Oberstein 26 (12)
2008–2010 Eintracht Braunschweig 58 (17)
2010–2013 Greuther Fürth 21 (6)
2011–2013Greuther Fürth II 18 (5)
2012Sandhausen (loan) 13 (1)
2013–2018 Duisburg 163 (45)
2018– 2020 Nea Salamis Famagusta 55 (25)
2020– Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics 27 (14)
2020Xinjiang Tianshan (loan) 7 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:22, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Kingsley Onuegbu (born 5 March 1986) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics in China League One.[1][2][3]

Career[]

Onuegbu played street soccer in Nigeria,[4] before his football career began in Germany in the summer of 2005 with SC Idar-Oberstein. In his first professional season for Idar-Oberstein in 2007–08, Onuegbu scored twelve goals in 26 games. In the summer of 2008 he joined Eintracht Braunschweig. On 11 May 2010, he left Braunschweig to sign with SpVgg Greuther Fürth. He signed with MSV Duisburg in 2013. On 9 May 2018, it was announced that he will leave Duisburg at the end of the 2017–18 season.[5]

For the 2018–19 season, he joined Cypriot club Nea Salamis Famagusta.[6]

On 30 August 2020, Onuegbu signed with Chinese club Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics.[7]

Personal life[]

He was born as Kingsley Ugochuwu and moved with twenty years from Lagos, Nigeria to his father to Paris, France.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Kingsley Onuegbu". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  2. ^ "Onuegbu, Kingsley" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Kingsley Onuegbu" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  4. ^ "Kingsley Onuegbu hat die Kritiker schnell widerlegt". newsclick.de (in German). 4 December 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Sieben Abschiede am Sonntag: Danke für eue Zeit in Zebrastreifen!". msv-duisburg.de. 9 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Καταρχήν συμφωνία με τον Νιγηριανό επιθετικό Kingsley Onuegbu". neasalamina.com. 9 July 2018.
  7. ^ "官方:尼日利亚球员奥努埃布加盟陕西长安竞技". zhibo8.cc. 30 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Er stürmt mit neuem Namen" (in German). bild.de. 3 July 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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