Emmanuel Izuagha

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Emmanuel Izuagha
Personnel
Surname Emmanuel Izuagha Ejike
birthday February 2, 1980
place of birth Nigeria
size 1.86 m
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
Princess Jegede
FC Nitel Lagos
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-2000 Eintracht Frankfurt amateurs
2000-2002 Chemnitzer FC 1 (0)
2000-2002 →  SV contractions  (Loan) 44 (1)
2002 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 0 (0)
2002-2003 SV labor 23 (0)
2004-2007 Đồng Tâm Long An
2007 Rot-Weiss Frankfurt 0 (0)
2007-2008 SV Wilhelmshaven 3 (0)
2009 Đồng Tâm Long An
2009–2012 DJK Bad Homburg
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Nigeria U17
Nigeria U20
Nigeria U-23
2003 Nigeria 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 3, 2007

Emmanuel Izuagha Ejike (born February 2, 1980 ) is a retired Nigerian soccer player . The central defender played for Nigeria's senior team during his career.

Club career

Izuagha came from his native Nigeria in 1997 to the Hessian club Eintracht Frankfurt , where he played for three years in the amateur team. In the summer of 2000 Izuagha moved to the second division Chemnitzer FC for 100,000 marks . The services of Izuagha did not meet the demands of the people in charge of the Chemnitz association. He was only substituted on September 24, 2000 (6th matchday) in the 1: 4 defeat against Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the 72nd minute for Marco Dittgen . In October 2000, Izuagha completed a trial training session with the regional division SV Wehen and was then loaned to the club. During labor, the center-back became a pillar of the club and was also loaned out by labor the following season. For the 2002/03 season Izuagha moved to the second division relegated 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 , but was not allowed to play there and therefore returned to Wehen in September 2002, where he played from then on. By September 2003, the central defender had a total of 67 missions for the regional league club before he was thrown out of the team by the club's management because of indiscipline and left the club.

From 2004 to 2007 Izuagha played in the Vietnamese V-League with being Tâm Long An . During this time, the club won two national championships, once the national cup and once the Supercup. In the spring of 2007 he appeared in Frankfurt at the regional division Rot-Weiss Frankfurt and initially only trained there to keep himself fit. After the club had several failures in defense, Izuagha was officially included in the squad in May 2007, but could not meet the expectations placed in him and was not used. For the 2007/08 season he was obliged by the league club SV Wilhelmshaven , where he tore a muscle fiber after the third matchday and did not come to any further missions. After the season he turned his back on Wilhelmshaven and was hired for the second time in V-League at Đồng Tâm Long An. Inzuagha returned after six months in Vietnam and played two seasons in the Frankfurt West group league for DJK Bad Homburg before ending his career in the summer of 2012.

National team

Izuagha was one of Nigeria's most hopeful talents and played as a captain in his country's U17 . He won the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup with the team , which also led to the commitment by Eintracht Frankfurt.

At the U20 African Championship in 1999, he and his teammates reached the final (0-1 against Ghana). The Ghanaian newspaper The Daily Graphic named Izuagha as the best central defender of the tournament. An injury prevented the defensive talent, who was already being traded at home as the successor to long-time national player Stephen Keshi , from participating in the 1999 junior soccer world championship in his own country.

In 2003 he came to his only appearance for the senior national team of Nigeria . In a friendly against Japan at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium , Nigeria lost 3-0 and Izuagha showed a poor performance, which he later attributed to the fact that his mother only died two days before the game.

In the same year he took part in the Pan-African Games with the Olympic team (U23) of his country. He scored two goals during the tournament and won the silver medal with the team after losing 2-0 to Cameroon in the final. There was a scandal before the final when a total of four players, including Izuagha, refused to play in the game. Only after paying a special bonus did the players accrue, but were then banned by the Nigerian Association for a year. Since then, Emmanuel Izuagha has not been appointed to a country selection.

Personal

Izuagha is a cousin of the former 2nd Bundesliga player Henry Nwosu and stepcousin of the former Super Eagles ( Nigerian national soccer team ) team captain Nwankwo Kanu .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The kicker calls Emmanuel Izuagha a six-time national player, transfermarkt.de attributes him four internationals. However, it should include stakes by the Olympic team in the context of the Pan-African Games or unofficial games.
  2. ^ Dates and names of the Chemnitzer FC. kicker Online, July 13, 2000, accessed May 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Kuze reduces squad / Süßner against Aachen in goal. Retrieved May 21, 2014 .
  4. ↑ The Schwickert team amazes the most daring optimists. kicker Online, January 8, 2001, accessed May 21, 2014 .
  5. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: report on chemnitzerfc.de )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.chemnitzerfc.de
  6. ↑ FC 05 changes the team and not the coach. kicker Online, July 21, 2002, accessed May 21, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Ways out of the crisis. kicker Online, September 19, 2002, accessed on May 21, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Coach Vasic's hands are tied. kicker Online, November 6, 2003, accessed on May 21, 2014 .
  9. ↑ MM: Stisi demands more willingness to run. WZ-Online, August 31, 2007, accessed May 21, 2014 .
  10. ^ DJK Bad Homburg - Squad season 2011/2012 - Group league Frankfurt West. (No longer available online.) November 19, 2011, archived from the original on March 15, 2014 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mittelkreis.de
  11. ↑ SC Eintracht loses 24 players. (No longer available online.) Taunus Zeitung, July 2, 2012, archived from the original on March 15, 2014 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taunus-zeitung.de
  12. ↑ Emmanuel Ejike. Profile. Nigerian_Players.com, archived from the original on August 24, 2007 ; accessed on May 21, 2014 (English).
  13. ↑ Brief portrait of Izuagha on nigeriasports.com (2004)
  14. ↑ kicker.de: "Legionaries" are not allowed to compete (from November 11, 2003)
  15. ^ Vietnam: The new Mecca for Nigerian Football? 9jafooty, April 18, 2012, accessed May 21, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Izuagha, Emmanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Izuagha Ejike, Emmanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Nigeria