Chima Okoroji

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Chima Okoroji
Personnel
Surname Chima Sean Okoroji
birthday April 19, 1997
place of birth Munich ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position External defense (left)
Juniors
Years station
0000-2004 TSV Grünwald
2004-2014 FC Bayern Munich
2015-2015 FC Augsburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2016 FC Augsburg II 39 (0)
2016-2019 SC Freiburg II 49 (1)
2018– Sc freiburg 2 (0)
2019-2020 →  SSV Jahn Regensburg  (loan) 34 (1)
2020– →  SC Paderborn 07  (loan) 0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 29, 2020

Chima Sean Okoroji (born April 19, 1997 in Munich ) is an English soccer player who is on loan from SC Freiburg to SC Paderborn 07 .

Career

Okoroji was born in Munich as the son of an Englishwoman and a Nigerian and is only a British citizen. He started playing soccer in the youth team at TSV Grünwald and joined the youth team at FC Bayern Munich in 2004 . Still a regular player in youth B, he moved to FC Augsburg after half a year of A youth, including four appearances in the UEFA Youth League against AS Roma and Manchester City , with whom he played at the end of the season relegated from the A-Juniors-Bundesliga . In the 2015/16 season he played for the second team of FC Augsburg for the first time in the Regionalliga Bayern , with the A-Jugend, meanwhile, as the champions of the Bayernliga, he was promoted directly again. In the 2016/17 season he was a regular player on the left defensive side in the Augsburg reserve team with 33 appearances.

In the summer of 2017 he moved to SC Freiburg , he for the second team 35 Regional games in the season 2017/18 denied. In the summer of 2018, Okoroji moved up to the professional squad, in which he was scheduled to replace the nominal left-back Christian Günter . He made his competitive debut for the Freiburg Bundesliga team in October 2018 as a substitute in a 1-1 draw in the Bundesliga in the Berlin Olympic Stadium against Hertha BSC .

For the 2019/20 season, Okoroji switched to second division SSV Jahn Regensburg for a year on loan to replace the loaned Alexander Nandzik . At Jahn he was able to establish himself under his new head coach Mersad Selimbegović , who preferred to play with a back four, right away on the left defensive flank and was in the starting line-up in each of the 35 season games. With a balanced duel rate of 50.09%, Okoroji landed in the midfield of the league.

Without returning to the Breisgau, another loan followed within the 2nd Bundesliga, this time for the 2020/21 season to the relegated SC Paderborn 07 .

World football

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ planetfootball.com: The Englishman who spent 10 years at Bayern & is still in the Bundesliga (May 3, 2018) , accessed on October 21, 2018
  2. ↑ talentkritiker.de: Chima Okoroji: Fuggerstädter Beastmode (Feb. 2, 2017) , accessed on October 21, 2018
  3. ↑ swr.de: With five new ones in one stroke in the middle of the table (21 Aug. 2018) , accessed on 21 October 2018
  4. ↑ kicker.de: Freiburg: Who is the backup for Günter? (7 Aug 2018) , accessed on 21 October 2018
  5. ↑ Okoroji on loan to Regensburg , scfreiburg.com, June 13, 2019, accessed on June 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Chima Okoroji about his regular place, the contact to Freiburg and his future , idowa.de, accessed on July 6, 2020
  7. ↑ 2nd Bundesliga 2019/20 - Player duels , sport.de, accessed on July 6, 2020
  8. ↑ Official farewell , ssv-jahn.de, accessed on July 6, 2020
  9. ↑ Schneller Linksfuss, scp07.de, accessed on July 30, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Okoroji, Chima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Okoroji, Chima Sean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany