Ikechi Anya

Ikechi Anya
Ikechi Anya at Watford FC (2014)
Personnel
birthday	January 3, 1988
place of birth	Glasgow ,  Scotland
size	170 cm
position	Winger (right)
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2003	Oxford United
2003-2004	Wycombe Wanderers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004-2007	Wycombe Wanderers	18 (0)
2007-2008	Oxford City
2008	Halesowen Town
2009	Northampton Town	14 (3)
2009-2010	Seville Atlético	22 (0)
2010-2011	Celta Vigo B	35 (8)
2011	Celta Vigo	1 (0)
2011-2013	Granada CF.	0 (0)
2011–2012	→  Cádiz FC  (loan)	29 (4)
2012-2013	→  Watford FC  (loan)	25 (3)
2013-2016	Watford FC	99 (5)
2016–	Derby County	29 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013–	Scotland	23 (3)
1 Only league games are given. As of February 5, 2018 2 As of October 11, 2016

Ikechi Anya (born January 3, 1988 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish football player of Nigerian and Romanian descent.

Career

youth

Ikeci Anya was born the son of a Nigerian scientist and a Romanian economist. The couple met in Bucharest and moved to Glasgow , Scotland , where Anya was born on January 3, 1988. Originally, like his brother, he was meant to pursue an academic career, but he was already interested in football when he was still at school. Even after moving to Oxford , where his father had a new job, he remained a fan of the Glasgow Rangers and the Scottish national team.

society

He started his football career as a youth player with the English football club Oxford United , from where he moved to the Wycombe Wanderers . There he became the youngest football player under coach Tony Adams at the age of 16 . Paul Lambert fired him from the team in 2007. After a few unsuccessful years at Oxford City and Halesowen Town, he played from 2009 for Northampton Town in Football League One . From there he moved to the Spanish club Sevilla Atlético . After two years he moved to the reserve team and then to the Celta Vigo senior team . In 2011 he moved to Granada CF , but was loaned to the two clubs Cádiz FC and Watford FC . Anya has been under contract for Watford FC since July 2013.

National team

Due to his family background, Anya would also have a right to play in the Nigerian national soccer team . However, he declined an offer in this regard. It would also have been possible to play in the English or Romanian national team . Instead, however, he opted for the Scottish national team. This appointed him on August 23, 2013 for the World Cup qualifiers against Macedonia and Belgium . He scored his first goal on September 10, 2013 against Macedonia. However, Scotland failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup .

Anya scored the 1-1 equalizer in the 2-1 defeat against Germany on September 7, 2014 in the qualifier for the European Championship 2016 .

Web links

• Ikechi Anya in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
• Ikechi Anya in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ikechi Anya in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ikechi Anya insists he has no regrets about playing for Scotland. Sky Sports , May 27, 2014, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Scotland new boy Ikechi Anya: Most of my family are scientists ... I bucked the trend and became a footballer. Daily Record , September 3, 2013, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Jack Pitt-Brooke: Ikechi Anya: Watford's wonder winger is not your everyday player. Independent , August 2, 2013, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
4. ^ Macedonia 1-2 Scotland. BBC.com , September 10, 2013, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
5. ↑ John McGary: Germany 2-1 Scotland PLAYER RATINGS: Ikechi Anya produces electric performance but Thomas Muller steals the show. Daily Mail , September 7, 2014, accessed November 15, 2014 .