Kevin Akpoguma

Kevin Akpoguma
Kevin Akpoguma (2016)
Personnel
Surname	Kevin John Ufuoma Akpoguma
birthday	April 19, 1995
place of birth	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ,  Germany
size	192 cm
position	Central defense
Juniors
Years	station
	Red-White Speyer
	Black and white Speyer
	FC Bavaria Wörth
0000-2007	FC Neureut 08
2007–2012	Karlsruher SC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2013	Karlsruher SC	8 (1)
2013–	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	42 (0)
2013-2019	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II	60 (3)
2015-2017	→  Fortuna Düsseldorf  (loan)	45 (0)
2015-2016	→  Fortuna Düsseldorf II  (loan)	5 (0)
2019	→  Hannover 96  (loan)	4 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010-2011	Germany U16	5 (0)
2011–2012	Germany U17	15 (0)
2012-2013	Germany U18	5 (3)
2013-2014	Germany U19	18 (0)
2014-2015	Germany U20	14 (1)
2016-2017	Germany U21	7 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 17, 2020

Kevin John Ufuoma Akpoguma (born April 19, 1995 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German football player . The central defender is under contract with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .

Career

societies

Kevin Akpoguma was born the son of a German and a Nigerian in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and began playing football in Speyer ( SpVgg RW 1921 Speyer and SV SW 1934 Speyer ). Via FC Bavaria Wörth (up to D-Jugend) and FC 1908 Neureut , he got into the youth department of Karlsruher SC in summer 2007 .

From the 2010/11 season he played for two years in the U17 Bundesliga (47 games; 9 goals). For the 2012/13 season he was part of the KSC U19 squad, which played in the A-Jugend-Bundesliga , as well as the squad of the first team in the 3rd division . On November 10, 2012, he was standing by the 2: 0 win at home against SV Darmstadt 98 as a central defender in the starting lineup. On January 26, 2013 (23rd matchday), he scored his first goal in a 3-2 win in the away game against VfL Osnabrück with the goal to mean 3-0 in the 55th minute - and was thus at the age of 17 and 282 days to become the youngest scorer in league history to date.

For the 2013/14 season , Akpoguma switched to Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , with whom he signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2017, which was extended in April 2015 by two more years to 2019.

For the 2015/16 season he switched to Fortuna Düsseldorf on loan for two years in the 2nd Bundesliga . Then he returned to Hoffenheim. There he made his Bundesliga debut in a 1-1 draw against VfL Wolfsburg on October 22, 2017 , when he came on for Stefan Posch in the 46th minute of the game . In the 3-0 defeat against Hamburger SV on November 26, 2017 (13th matchday), Akpoguma scored an own goal to make it 0-1 for HSV. This was the 1,000th own goal in Bundesliga history.

1 January 2019, changed Akpoguma on loan until the end of season 2018/19 to Hannover 96 . After 4 Bundesliga appearances, he was out with a shoulder injury until the end of the season. After the relegation of Hannover 96 to the 2nd Bundesliga , he left the club with the end of his loan agreement.

His contract in Hoffenheim runs until 2024.

National team

Akpoguma was used five times in the U16 national team . He also played for the U17 team , with whom he took part in the European Championships in Slovenia in the summer of 2012 and finished second. On November 14, 2012, he was used by coach Horst Hrubesch in the international match against Italy as a striker of the U18 - and promptly scored two goals in the game won 3-0. Akpoguma has been a player in the U19 national team since 2013 , with which he became European champion in 2014 , where he was used as a defender . He has been playing in the U20 national team since September 2014 , as its captain he took part in the 2015 World Cup in New Zealand. From 2016 to 2017 Akpoguma played seven times for the German U21 national team .

successes

Karlsruher SC

• Master of 3. Liga : 2013

National team

• U19 European Champion : 2014

Awards

• Fritz Walter Medal 2013 in Gold (Best U-18 Young Player)

Web links

Commons : Kevin Akpoguma  - Collection of Images

• Kevin Akpoguma in the database of the German Football Association
• Kevin Akpoguma in the database of kicker.de
• Kevin Akpoguma in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kevin Akpoguma in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Deji O .: Top 10 International Football Stars You Didn't Know Are Nigerians. In: theinfong.com. December 19, 2016, accessed April 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} DFB.de: U-18- ( Memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), U-19 national player Akpoguma ( Memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ http://www.fcb-woerth.de/?page=5
4. ↑ 3-liga.com: Akpoguma youngest scorer
5. ↑ TSG sign Kevin Akpoguma
6. ↑ Fortuna signs Kevin Akpoguma
7. ↑ Fortuna grabs Akpoguma for two years
8. ↑ Uduokhai saves Wölfen the fifth draw under Schmidt , match report on kicker.de, accessed on October 26, 2017.
9. ↑ Unlucky Akpoguma - Kostic kurios , match report on kicker.de, accessed on November 27, 2017.
10. ↑ Akpoguma scores 1000th own goal in Bundesliga history on transfermarkt.de, accessed on November 27, 2017.
11. ↑ First winter newcomer: Akpoguma comes from Hoffenheim to 96 on hannover96.de, accessed on December 30, 2018.
12. ↑ Hannover 96 fails with a new attempt at Akpoguma - Ex-Bremer Prödl a topic , sportbuzzer.de, May 16, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2019.
13. ↑ Kurz gek (l) ickt - News from Sunday , hannover96.de, May 19, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2019.
14. ↑ Akpoguma extended to 2024 achtzehn99.de, on January 15, 2020, accessed on January 15, 2020
15. ↑ International match against Italy ( Memento from September 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on www.dfb.de, accessed on November 17, 2012
16. ↑ uefa.com: "Germany - UEFA European Under-19 Championship"
17. ↑ Squad for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand from May 30 to June 20, 2015
18. ^ Fritz Walter Medal 2012: The winners: These are the best talents in Germany