Joseph Akpala

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Joseph Akpala
Joseph Akpala.JPG
Joseph Akpala in the jersey of Karabükspor (2013)
Personnel
Surname Joseph Eneojo Akpala
birthday August 24, 1986
place of birth Jos ,  Nigeria
size 184 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1997-2002 Pepsi Football Academy
2003-2005 Bendel United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2006 Bendel Insurance 19 (13)
2006-2008 Sporting Charleroi 61 (25)
2008–2012 Club Bruges 130 (45)
2012-2013 Werder Bremen 21 0(1)
2013-2014 →  Kardemir Karabükspor  (loan) 11 0(4)
2014-2015 Kardemir Karabükspor 25 0(4)
2015-2018 KV Ostend 80 (20)
2018-2019 Al Faisaly 14 0(2)
2019– KV Ostend 6 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2005-2007 Nigeria U20 23 (10)
2008-2013 Nigeria 10 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of June 23, 2013

Joseph Eneojo Akpala (born August 24, 1986 in Jos ) is a Nigerian football player . He is also a Belgian citizen.

Career

society

Until 2002 Akpala was trained in the boarding school of the Pepsi Football Academy , in which players like John Obi Mikel and Soga Sambo were also trained. He was active in the Pepsi youth department for five years. In 2003, the striker moved to the youth department of Bendel United, where he also signed his first professional contract. Finally, in 2005 , the city's top association Bendel Insurance secured the services of Akpala. There he scored thirteen goals in nineteen games, making him top scorer in the national Premier League . After just one year, Sporting Charleroi lured the young player to Belgium in January 2006. After a short period of acclimatization, Akpala developed into the top scorer of his team in the 2007/08 season and secured the title of the league's top scorer with 18 goals . This prompted the Belgian top club FC Bruges to bring Akpala to the Jan Breydel Stadium for the 2008/09 season . At Bruges, the attacker quickly became a regular and was the team's top scorer with fifteen goals in 2008/09. In the league's top scorer list, the offensive player landed fourth. Only Jaime Alfonso Ruiz (17 hits), Tom De Sutter and Dieumerci Mbokani (16 hits each) were better. So he could not defend his title as the best marksman in the First Division. When the Cameroonian Dorge Kouemaha was bought as another striker in the following season , Akpala ousted Akpala from the position of “striker number 1”, so that the Nigerian was the second best scorer of his team with seven goals (together with Wesley Sonck ), but nine Fewer goals than Kouemaha scored.

In the summer of 2012, Akpala moved to the Bundesliga for Werder Bremen , where he signed a four-year contract until June 30, 2016. He made his Bundesliga debut on September 1, 2012 (2nd matchday) in a 2-0 home win against Hamburger SV . For the 2013/14 season Akpala was loaned to the Turkish first division club Kardemir Karabükspor . He was firmly committed to the 2014/15 season. After Karabükspor failed to keep the Süper Lig relegation in summer 2015, Akpala left this club.

He then returned to Belgium and signed a three-year contract with first division KV Ostend . After this contract expires, his contract in Ostend should not be extended. Akpala moved to Al-Faisaly in Saudi Arabia , where he signed a contract for the current 2018/19 season.

After that, he initially remained without a contract before signing a contract with KV Ostend again on November 18, 2019 until the end of the current 2019/20 season.

National team

Akpala played several times for Nigeria's U20s between 2005 and 2007 before he was nominated for the country's senior squad. On September 6, 2008 Akpala made his debut in the dress of the Nigerian national team in the World Cup qualifying game against South Africa . At that time, national coach Samson Siasia came on for Ikechukwu Uche on the 80th minute . In the following years Akpala was nominated irregularly and missed the call to the squad for the African Cup of Nations 2010 and the World Cup in South Africa . In the run-up to the World Cup, at a training camp in Great Britain, Akpala was appointed to the provisional Nigerian squad by coach Lars Lagerbäck , but retired for the final nomination , as did Seyi Olofinjana , Ikechukwu Uche and Peter Utaka .

After a friendly match in 2010 and 2013 and two group matches at the Confederation Cup 2013 , he no longer played in the national team.

successes

Individually

Web links

Commons : Joseph Akpala  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Akpala. (No longer available online.) In: gfdb.com. Archived from the original on January 28, 2016 ; accessed on December 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Biography of Joseph Akpala ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on josephakpala.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.josephakpala.com
  3. ↑ Bruges signed Akpala on July 18, 2008 on transfermarkt.de
  4. ↑ Squad: Club Brugge 2008/09 on national-football-teams.com
  5. ↑ Squad: Club Bruges 2009/10 on national-football-teams.com
  6. ↑ Transfer fix! Joseph Akpala moves to SV Werder. (No longer available online.) SV Werder Bremen, August 23, 2012, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; accessed on December 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Werder Bremen'den Karabükspor'a! (No longer available online.) In: trtspor.com.tr. Archived from the original on September 3, 2013 ; accessed on December 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Joseph Akpala moves to Karabükspor. (No longer available online.) SV Werder Bremen, August 11, 2014, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; accessed on December 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ KV Ostend strictly Joseph Akpala. In: Gazet van Antwerpen. July 6, 2015, accessed November 18, 2019 (Dutch).
  10. ↑ Transfer: Joseph Akpala treks transfervrij naar Al-Faisaly. In: doorfansvoorfans.org. August 23, 2018, accessed November 18, 2019 (Dutch).
  11. ↑ Akpala keert terug bij KVO. KV Ostend, November 18, 2019, accessed on November 18, 2019 (Dutch).
  12. ↑ Match report: South Africa - Nigeria 0: 1 on weltfussball.de
predecessor Office successor


François Sterchele 		Top scorer in
the first division (Belgium)
2007/08

Jaime Alfonso Ruiz
personal data
SURNAME Akpala, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akpala, Joseph Eneojo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Jos , Nigeria