Sunny Obayan

Sunny
Sunny 2014
Personnel
Surname	Sunday Stephen Obayan
birthday	17th September 1988
place of birth	Lagos ,  Nigeria
size	180 cm
position	Defensive midfielder
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Ebedei
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2007	Polideportivo Ejido	63 (0)
2007-2008	Valencia CF	10 (0)
2008-2009	→  CA Osasuna  (loan)	4 (0)
2009-2010	→  Betis Sevilla  (loan)	7 (0)
2011	→  CD Numancia  (loan)	14 (2)
2011-2013	CD Numancia	62 (1)
2013	FC Bnei Sachnin	2 (0)
2014-2015	CSKA Sofia	31 (0)
2015-2016	Alanyaspor	12 (0)
2016-2018	Real Salt Lake	59 (1)
2016-2017	→  Real Monarchs  (loan)	3 (0)
2019–	Paphos FC	5 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2007	Spain U19	5 (0)
2007	Spain U20	4 (0)
2009	Spain U21	1 (0)
2010	Nigeria	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 24, 2020

Stephen Sunday Obayan (born September 17, 1988 in Lagos , Nigeria ), better known by his stage name Sunny or Sunny Obayan , is a Nigerian - Spanish football player .

Career

In his home country Nigeria, Sunday played in various clubs before taking part in two youth tournaments in Sweden and Spain in 2003 with his club FC Ebedei . The last of the two took place in Madrid and he was so convincing that Polideportivo Ejido signed him. In 2005 "Sunny" signed his first professional contract with the second division team. He became a regular straight away and played a total of 55 games for his club. Due to his good performance some European top teams became interested and let Sunday be watched. Among others, Liverpool FC , Real Madrid , Deportivo La Coruña , Valencia FC , Real Betis and SSC Napoli wanted to sign him . He decided to join Valencia CF in the summer of 2007. There he did not get beyond the reserve role and was finally awarded, in the 2008/09 season to the CA Osasuna and in the next season to Betis Sevilla . He was only used sporadically at these two stations.

Another year later, in the second half of the 2010/11 season , he was loaned to the second division CD Numancia until the end of the season. There he played in the regular formation and was finally equipped with a permanent contract in the summer of 2011.

After spending six months at FC Bnei Sachnin in 2013 , he moved to CSKA Sofia in early 2014 , where he signed a contract until June 2016.

In the summer of 2015 he moved to the Turkish TFF 1st Lig to Alanyaspor . After half a season he left this club for Real Salt Lake .

National team

Despite being a native Nigerian, Sunday decided to play for the Spanish national team. So far he has only been used in the youth teams there. With the U-20 he took part in the 2007 U-20 World Cup in Canada .

In accordance with the FIFA Statutes, he was able to make a new choice when choosing the senior national team. Since he had no prospect of a nomination in the Spanish team , he decided to play for his home country. He made his first appearance in qualifying for the 2012 African Championship against Guinea .

successes

• Spanish Cup : 2008 with Valencia CF

Web links

• Sunny in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sunny Obayan in the database of kicker.de
• Sunny in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Sunny Obayan in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• Sunny Obayan in the mackolik.com database (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cdnumancia.net: "Sunny nuevo jugador rojillo"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish, accessed October 20, 2011)  
2. ↑ Profile on weltfussball.de (accessed on March 9, 2015)
3. ↑ soccerway.com: Match report Guinea - Nigeria (accessed October 20, 2011)