Pascal Ojigwe

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Pascal Ojigwe
Personnel
Surname Pascal Karibe Ojigwe
birthday December 11, 1976
place of birth Aba ,  Nigeria
size 176 cm
position Midfield / defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1995 Enyimba FC
1995-1999 1. FC Kaiserslautern 06 0(0)
1999-2000 1. FC Cologne 32 0(2)
2000-2003 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 30 0(0)
2003-2004 Bor. Mönchengladbach 07 0(0)
2004-2006 TSV 1860 Munich 01 0(0)
2006-2007 Enyimba FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
-1993 Nigeria U17
1994-2002 Nigeria 17 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Pascal Karibe Ojigwe (born December 11, 1976 in Aba ) is a former Nigerian football player . In 2004, after ten years in Germany, he also took on German citizenship . He ended his career after the 2006/07 season.

Career

society

Ojigwe was active in both midfield and defense. He started his career at Enyimba FC in Nigeria. In 1995 1. FC Kaiserslautern brought the young Nigerian to Germany. In his four years in the Palatinate, the midfielder played six times with the professionals and won the German championship with the club in 1998 . In 1999 he moved on loan to the then second division club 1. FC Köln , where he immediately became a regular player and played a major role in the promotion to the 1. Bundesliga . But he drew the attention of other clubs in the 1st Bundesliga to himself with his outstanding performance. Although the Cologne would have liked to keep him, Ojigwe opted for Bayer 04 Leverkusen , who committed him for a € 2.1 million transfer fee. Due to his time at Bayer, Ojigwe's success list also includes second place in the 1st Bundesliga, the DFB Cup and the Champions League - all in 2002.

However, he was unable to assert himself there in three years, moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2003 and a year later to Munich for TSV 1860 , where he also hardly played. His contract, which expired on June 30, 2006, was not renewed due to a knee injury and Ojigwe returned to his hometown club Enyimba FC for a year before retiring in 2007.

National team

Ojigwe already played in the Nigerian U-17 national team and won the 1993 World Cup with them , where he played all six games with Wilson Oruma in defensive midfield. He later played 17 games for the senior team , including two at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations in Mali, where Nigeria finished third.

statistics

In total, Ojigwe played 42 games in the 1st Bundesliga , 34 games in the 2nd Bundesliga , eight games in the DFB Cup , one game in the DFB League Cup and nine games in the Champions League . He scored his only two goals in Germany during his time at 1. FC Köln in the 2. Bundesliga in a 6-3 win against FC St. Pauli . In his club career in Germany, he received a total of ten yellow and one red card.

successes

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  1. ^ Spiegel Online 1999
  2. ↑ Overview of all games of the U-17 World Cup 1993 ( Memento from June 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 1. FC Köln - FC St. Pauli 6: 3 (4: 2) - The game in the bundesliga.de database under “The last matches between the two teams” ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

All other data originate from the pages indicated under web links.

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personal data
SURNAME Ojigwe, Pascal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ojigwe, Pascal Karibe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Nigerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Aba (Nigeria)