Angelo Ogbonna
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Angelo Ogbonna (2019)
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Personnel | ||
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Surname | Angelo Obinze Ogbonna | |
birthday | May 23, 1988 | |
place of birth | Cassino , Italy | |
size | 191 cm | |
position | Central defender | |
Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
2002-2007 | Torino FC | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
2006-2013 | Torino FC | 147 (1) |
2007-2008 | → FC Crotone (loan) | 22 (0) |
2013-2015 | Juventus Turin | 41 (0) |
2015– | West Ham United | 128 (4) |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
2009-2010 | Italy U-21 | 9 (0) |
2011– | Italy | 13 (0) |
1 Only league games are given. As of March 14, 2020 2 As of October 5, 2017 |
Angelo Obinze Ogbonna (born May 23, 1988 in Cassino ) is an Italian football player with Nigerian roots.
Career
In the club
Angelo Ogbonna is the son of Nigerian immigrants and joined the Turin FC youth academy at the age of 14 . At the age of 18 he played for the first team of the club in Serie A for the first time . To gain experience, he was loaned to southern Italian FC Crotone in the 2007/08 season, who had previously been relegated to the third division . After the year he returned to Turin and established himself there in the first division team. In December 2008, he was lucky when he drove his car into a river and got away with minor injuries. In the second half of the season he moved more and more into the starting line-up, but the 2009 season ended with the relegation of Turin.
Ogbonna remained loyal to the club, he played in the second division for three years and developed into one of the team's most valuable players in central defense. In the 2011/12 season he was under Gian Piero Ventura part of the outstanding defense of the team, which allowed only 28 goals against in 42 games, of which he played 39 games himself. The performance was rewarded with second place and a return to the top division.
In the national team
Although Angelo Ogbonna was relegated to Serie B with FC Turin in the summer of 2009, he was noticed by those responsible in the Italian association and shortly thereafter was appointed to the U-21 team. For the first time he appeared on August 12, 2009 in a friendly against the Russian U-21 for the Italian juniors. Then he was regularly used in the qualification for the Junior European Championship.
Although he also received offers from Nigeria to play for the national team, Ogbonna turned it down and was rewarded when he was first called up to the Italian A-team in June 2011 . The first use came a few months later when he was substituted on by coach Cesare Prandelli in the final quarter of an hour at the friendly game in Poland . He was then used in a test match against the USA over the full season in February and was then surprisingly accepted as the only second division player in Italy 's European Championship squad at the end of May 2012 .
At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Italian squad . He got his only use in the third round match against Ireland, when he was allowed to play over 90 minutes. The team had already secured group victory in the two previous games. The game was lost 0-1.
As a result, Ogbonna was used in the World Cup qualification against Israel in early September 2016 and was also in the Azzurri squad in October . For the rest of the World Cup qualification it was no longer taken into account. In March 2018, he was under interim coach Luigi Di Biagio for the last time in the Italian squad, but remained unused. Since then it has not been taken into account.
successes
- Promotion to Serie A : 2011/12
- Vice European Champion : 2012
- Italian Super Cup winner : 2013
- Italian champion : 2013/14 , 2014/15
- Italian cup winner : 2014/15
Web links
- Angelo Ogbonna in the database of weltfussball.de
- Angelo Ogbonna ( Memento from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Angelo Ogbonna in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Angelo Ogbonna on the website of the Italian Association (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelo Ogbonna ( Memento of July 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at West Ham United
- ↑ a b Player Profile: Angelo Ogbonna ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Serie A Weekly, March 22, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ogbonna, Angelo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ogbonna, Angelo Obinze (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cassino , Italy |