Jonathan Akpoborie
| Jonathan Akpoborie | ||
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 20th October 1968 | |
| place of birth | Lagos , Nigeria | |
| size | 170 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| until 1986 | Queen's Park Rangers Lagos | |
| 1987 | Julius Berger Lagos | |
| 1987-1990 | Brooklyn Bulldogs | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1990-1992 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 53 (9) |
| 1992-1994 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 74 (26) |
| 1994-1995 | Stuttgart Kickers | 32 (37) |
| 1995 | SV Waldhof Mannheim | 18 (9) |
| 1996-1997 | Hansa Rostock | 47 (20) |
| 1997-1999 | VfB Stuttgart | 58 (21) |
| 1999-2001 | VfL Wolfsburg | 39 (20) |
| 2001-2002 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 4 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1985-1986 | Nigeria U-16 | 13 (0) |
| 1995-2002 | Nigeria | 12 (4) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Jonathan Akpoborie (born October 20, 1968 in Lagos ) is a former Nigerian football player who also has German citizenship.
career
Akpoborie started his career in Lagos State with the Queens Park Rangers , from where he was appointed to the Nigerian U-16 national team in 1985. A year later he became U-16 world champion and signed with Julius Berger FC . After four months in the highest Nigerian league, he left Nigeria for a sports scholarship at the renowned Brooklyn College in the USA. He then played in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga as a striker for 1. FC Saarbrücken , FC Carl Zeiss Jena , Hansa Rostock , SV Waldhof Mannheim , VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg . Before moving to Hansa Rostock in the 1994/95 season, he scored 37 goals in 32 games for the Stuttgarter Kickers in the Regionalliga Süd and was the top scorer.
In total, he came to 144 appearances in the Bundesliga , in which he scored 61 goals. In the Second Bundesliga he scored 44 times in 149 games.
2001 made Akpoborie headlines when the family-owned ferry Etireno on the border with Benin was applied because it was suspected of child slaves to Gabon to smuggle. The incident led to his suspension by VfL Wolfsburg and - after a short stopover in Saarbrücken - to his withdrawal from active football. The Swiss director Heidi Specogna processed the story of the ship, its passengers and its owner in the documentary Das Schiff des Torjäger (2010).
Akpoborie is now a licensed player agent.
Personal
His older brother Richard (born November 22, 1964) was also active as a football player and played mainly in the North Rhine-Westphalian association leagues and regional leagues.
Web links
- Jonathan Akpoborie in the database of weltfussball.de
- Jonathan Akpoborie in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Jonathan Akpoborie in the Kickers archive
- A slave ship cost Akpoborie his career
- FR interview with Jonathan Akpoborie - "My life was destroyed" in the Frankfurter Rundschau on November 30, 2010, accessed on October 21, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Zenner: What is actually ...? Jonathan Akpoborie. Saarbrücker Zeitung , January 10, 2011, archived from the original on March 14, 2017 ; accessed on March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Acquisition: 'Unlucky slave ship' owner. BBC, May 2, 2001, accessed September 30, 2007 .
- ↑ Slave ship link soccer star suspended. CNN, April 30, 2001, accessed September 30, 2007 .
- ↑ René Martens: slave traders and players' agents. Die Zeit, November 29, 2010, accessed on November 29, 2010 .
- ↑ “They think I sell children”. (No longer available online.) 11 friends, archived from the original on December 3, 2010 ; Retrieved November 29, 2010 .
- ^ Richard Akpoborie - VfB knowledge. VfB 1914 Wissen eV, accessed on November 29, 2010 .
- ^ Brothers without current perspectives. Stern, archived from the original on October 23, 2013 ; Retrieved November 29, 2010 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Acquisition, Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th October 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lagos |