Isaac Okoronkwo
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Isaac Okoronkwo | |
| birthday | May 1, 1978 | |
| place of birth | Nbene , Nigeria | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| FC Lagos | ||
| Julius Berger | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1994 | FC Enyimba | 13 (4) |
| 1995 | Iwuanyanwu National | 26 (7) |
| 1996-1997 | Julius Berger | 25 (5) |
| 1997-1998 | Al-Rayyan Sports Club | |
| 1998 | Iwuanyanwu National | 25 (6) |
| 1998-2000 | Sheriff Tiraspol | 41 (1) |
| 2000-2003 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 53 (0) |
| 2003-2004 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 7 (0) |
| 2005 | Alania Vladikavkaz | 20 (0) |
| 2006-2009 | FK Moscow | 58 (2) |
| 2010-2013 | FK Rostov | 60 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2001-2007 | Nigeria | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Isaac Okoronkwo (born May 1, 1978 in Nbene ) is a retired Nigerian soccer player . The central defender and World Cup participant in 2002 played a large part of his professional career in Eastern European football; in English football, on the other hand, there was only a one-year interlude with Wolverhampton Wanderers .
Athletic career
Via the detour of FC Lagos, it led the young Isaac Okoronkwo to the Nigerian top club Julius Berger . After further positions at FC Enyimba and Iwuanyanwu Nationale as well as a short return to the club with German roots, he gained his first international experience in Qatar , where he worked for six months between 1997 and 1998 for the Al-Rayyan Sport-Club based there . However, the hoped-for continued employment did not materialize; Okoronkwo returned to Iwuanyanwu Nationale in his homeland before making a second attempt abroad a year later. New destination was Eastern Europe, where he played for the Moldovan Sheriff Tiraspol for two years and from summer 2000 he strengthened the defense of the Ukrainian top club Shakhtar Donetsk . In Donetsk, the central defender was able to present himself more and more on the international stage and also recommended himself for the Nigerian national team thanks to his appearances in the UEFA Cup and the Champions League as well as his successes in the Ukrainian Cup (2001, 2002) and the Ukrainian championship (2002) .
When Okoronkwo's contract expired at the end of the 2002/03 season, clubs from the English Premier League and the German Bundesliga showed up - according to media reports, these included FC Schalke 04 , Borussia Mönchengladbach and, with the support of his friend and national team colleague Jay-Jay Okocha , the Bolton Wanderers - interested in a commitment. Somewhat surprisingly, the 2002 World Cup participant only signed a one-year contract with the Premier League promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers . In English football, however, the newcomer never found his way around, stayed away from the top team for months - or even the substitute bench - and only made his only seven premier league appearances at the end of the season, when the relegation was almost certain. After the end of the season, Okoronkwo received no new contract and so he joined Alania Wladikawkas in southwest Russia. A short time later, financial problems made it impossible to continue working there and Okoronkwo moved to the capital in 2006. When FK Moscow , he was an important player right away - at the end of the first season, the supporters voted him along with Hector Bracamonte at the best club players last season. After the end of the 2009 season, due to the possible new foreigner restriction in Russian football, a contract extension of the Nigerian was questioned. As a result, he moved at the beginning of 2010 to league rivals FK Rostov . There he initially belonged to the tribe of the team. In the 2012/13 season he only rarely got a chance and ended his career in the summer of 2013.
Nigerian national team
Okoronkwo made his debut for the Nigerian senior team in 2001 after playing for the Olympic team in Sydney the previous year . In the following years he was in the squad of the "Super Eagles" for the African Championship in 2002 and 2004 and also played all his team's games at the 2002 World Cup , which, however, ended in the group stage. His partner in the central defense was for a long time Joseph Yobo . After Berti Vogts changed coach to Shaibu Amodu in spring 2008, Okoronkwo's national team career ended.
successes
- Ukrainian champion : 2002
- Ukrainian Cup Winner : 2001, 2002
- Moldovan Cup: 1999
Web links
- Static data from Sportbox.ru
- Isaac Okoronkwo in the database of weltfussball.de
- Isaac Okoronkwo in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Isaac Okoronkwo" (When Saturday Comes)
- ↑ "Moskva to decide future of Krunic and Okoronkwo" ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Sport Express Daily)
- ↑ "Squad Profiles: Isaac Okoronkwo" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Isaac Okoronkwo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- ↑ “Okoronkwo wants Yobo reunion in Eagles” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The Punch)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Okoronkwo, Isaac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Level |