Kingsley Ehizibue

Kingsley Ehizibue
Kingsley Ehizibue (2016)
Personnel
Surname	Kingsley Osezele Ehizibue
birthday	May 25, 1995
place of birth	Munich ,  Germany
size	189 cm
position	right defender
Juniors
Years	station
00000000	CSV '28
0000–2014	PEC Zwolle
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2016	Jong PEC	32 (2)
2014-2019	PEC Zwolle	122 (8)
2019–	1. FC Cologne	31 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2016	Netherlands U21	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Kingsley Osezele Ehizibue [ æ: si: bu: æ ] (born May 25, 1995 in Munich , Germany ) is a Dutch - Nigerian soccer player who is under contract with 1. FC Cologne in Germany . He is mainly used as a right defender and is a former Dutch youth international.

Career

Beginnings in the Netherlands

Kingsley Ehizibue was born in Munich to Nigerian parents. The family moved to Zwolle in the Netherlands when Kingsley was two years old.

Ehizibue started playing football at the local amateur club CSV '28, then he was accepted into the youth performance center of the first division club PEC Zwolle and trained up to the age of 19. At the age of seventeen he was allowed to play for Jong PEC, Zwolle's second team, for the first time in the Beloften Eredivisie, which was later disbanded .

In the cup game against HHC Hardenberg in October 2014 (6: 1), the defender was on the field for the first time after being substituted on; the team made it to the final, but lost 2-0 against FC Groningen . From the 2016/17 season he was part of the first team's squad and subsequently became a regular player. The defensive player completed a total of 122 top division games for the PEC.

Move to Germany

For the 2019/20 Bundesliga season , Ehizibue signed a four-year contract with German first division promoted 1. FC Köln . On February 2, 2020, he scored his first goal for the club in a 4-0 win against SC Freiburg .

National team

The defender played once for the U21s in the Netherlands under head coach Fred Grim in March 2016 .

National coach Gernot Rohr nominated the defender at the beginning of March 2020 for the qualifying game of Nigeria's A-selection for the Africa Cup 2021 against Sierra Leone, which will take place at the end of the month . However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , this encounter has been canceled until further notice.

Web links

• Kingsley Ehizibue in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kingsley Ehizibue in the database of kicker.de
• Kingsley Ehizibue in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See his profile on fussball.de, accessed on August 20, 2019.
2. ↑ Kingsley #Ehizibue, how do you pronounce your name? , Official fan page of 1. FC Köln on twitter.com, accessed on June 9, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jans is blij met progressie Zwolse talenten , nos.nl, accessed on May 31, 2019 (Dutch)
4. ↑ 1. FC Köln sign Kingsley Ehizibue , fc.de, accessed on May 31, 2019
5. ↑ Match report Netherlands U21 - Serbia U21 , transfermarkt.de, accessed on May 31, 2019
6. ↑ Dessers & Ehizibue earn Nigeria call-ups as Leicester City's Iheanacho returns , goal.com, accessed on March 9, 2020 (English)