Kenneth Omeruo

Kenneth Omeruo
Kenneth Omeruo (2017)
Personnel
Surname	Kenneth Josiah Omeruo
birthday	17th October 1993
place of birth	Abia ,  Nigeria
size	185 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
2010–2012	Standard Liege
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2019	Chelsea FC	0 (0)
2012-2013	→  ADO Den Haag  (loan)	36 (2)
2014-2015	→  Middlesbrough FC  (loan)	33 (0)
2015-2016	→  Kasımpaşa Istanbul  (loan)	25 (0)
2016-2017	→  Alanyaspor  (loan)	26 (1)
2017-2018	→ Kasımpaşa Istanbul (loan)	28 (1)
2018-2019	→  CD Leganés  (loan)	28 (0)
2019–	CD Leganés	5 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009	Nigeria U17	7 (1)
2011	Nigeria U20	5 (0)
2013–	Nigeria	47 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 10, 2019 2 As of October 10, 2019

Kenneth Josiah Omeruo (born October 17, 1993 in Abia ) is a Nigerian football player .

Career

society

Omeruo learned to play football in the youth department of Standard Liège and moved to English club Chelsea in 2012 . From this he was loaned to ADO Den Haag in the 2012/13 season and to Middlesbrough FC in the 2014/15 season.

For the 2015/16 season, his club loaned him to Kasımpaşa Istanbul in the Turkish Süper Lig . In the summer transfer period of 2016 he was loaned to another Turkish first division club with Alanyaspor . He returned to Kasımpaşa on loan in the summer of 2017.

National team

Omeruo started his national team career in 2009 with a commitment for the Nigerian U-17 national team .

Omeruo made his debut in 2011 as part of the 2011 U-20 World Cup for the Nigerian U-20 national team and made it to the quarter-finals with his team.

Since 2013 he has played for the Nigerian national team , with which he won the Africa Cup in the same year . At the 2014 World Cup , he played in every Nigerian game and failed with the team in the second round to France . He was also part of the Nigerian squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where Nigeria was eliminated as third in Group D in the group stage. Omeruo played in the win against Iceland and the defeat Argentina .

successes

With the Nigerian U-20 national team

• Quarter-finalist of the U-20 World Cup : U-20 World Cup 2011

With the Nigerian national team

• African champions 2013
• Round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup

Web links

• Kenneth Omeruo in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kenneth Omeruo in the database of the Turkish Football Federation (English)
• Kenneth Omeruo in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)