Kingsley Onuegbu
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 5 March 1986 | ||
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) |
2011–2013 | → Greuther Fürth II | 18 | (5) |
2012 | → Sandhausen (loan) | 13 | (1) |
2013–2018 | Duisburg | 163 | (45) |
2018– 2020 | Nea Salamis Famagusta | 55 | (25) |
2020– | Shaanxi Chang'an Athletics | 27 | (14) |
2020 | → Xinjiang 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[]
- ^ "Kingsley Onuegbu". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "Onuegbu, Kingsley" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Kingsley Onuegbu" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ^ "Kingsley Onuegbu hat die Kritiker schnell widerlegt". newsclick.de (in German). 4 December 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
- ^ "Sieben Abschiede am Sonntag: Danke für eue Zeit in Zebrastreifen!". msv-duisburg.de. 9 May 2018.
- ^ "Καταρχήν συμφωνία με τον Νιγηριανό επιθετικό Kingsley Onuegbu". neasalamina.com. 9 July 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Er stürmt mit neuem Namen" (in German). bild.de. 3 July 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
External links[]
- Kingsley Onuegbu at Soccerway
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kaduna
- Nigerian footballers
- Association football forwards
- Eintracht Braunschweig players
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth players
- SV Sandhausen players
- Oberliga (football) players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- 3. Liga players
- MSV Duisburg players
- Nea Salamis Famagusta FC players
- Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic F.C. players
- China League One players
- Nigerian expatriate footballers
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in China
- Expatriate footballers in China
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
- Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
- Nigerian football forward stubs