Taiwo Awoniyi

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Taiwo Awoniyi
2018-02-22 Entrainement excel-29 Taiwo Awoniyi.jpg
Training at Royal Excel Mouscron (2018)
Personnel
Surname Taiwo Michael Awoniyi
birthday August 12, 1997
place of birth Ilorin ,  Nigeria
size 178 or 181 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Kwara Football Academy
0000–2015 Imperial Soccer Academy
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015– Liverpool FC 0 0(0)
2015-2016 →  FSV Frankfurt  (loan) 13 0(1)
2016-2017 →  NEC Nijmegen  (loan) 21 0(3)
2016-2017 → NEC Nijmegen U21 (loan) 6 0(5)
2017-2018 →  Royal Excel Mouscron  (loan) 29 0(9)
2018-2019 →  KAA Gent  (loan) 16 0(0)
2019 → Royal Excel Mouscron (loan) 16 (11)
2019-2020 →  1. FSV Mainz 05  (loan) 12 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Nigeria U15
2013 Nigeria U17 8 0(4)
2015 Nigeria U20 9 0(5)
2015– Nigeria U23 7 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 11, 2020

Taiwo Michael Awoniyi (born August 12, 1997 in Ilorin ) is a Nigerian football player . The striker is under contract with Liverpool .

Career

In the club

Awoniyi started playing soccer in school and was later accepted into the Kwara Football Academy . He then went to the Imperial Soccer Academy in Lagos .

On August 31, 2015, he was signed by Liverpool FC and loaned to FSV Frankfurt until the end of the 2015/16 season with the option of one more season in the 2nd Bundesliga . Awoniyi came to the FSV on 13 second division appearances (one goal) as well as one use in the DFB-Pokal (no goal). At the end of August 2016, Awoniyi moved to NEC Nijmegen on loan to the Dutch Eredivisie . Further loan deals followed with the Belgian first division club Royal Excel Mouscron (2017/18 season), KAA Gent (July 2017 to January 2018) and again Royal Excel Mouscron for the second half of the 2018/19 season. For his home club, Liverpool FC, he has not been used in any competitive game.

In August 2019, the striker was loaned to the German Bundesliga club 1. FSV Mainz 05 for one season .

In the national team

Awoniyi began his national team career in the Nigerian U15 selection. He later moved up to the U17 , in which he scored four goals in a total of eight games and with which he became U17 world champion in 2013 . He was used in all seven games and scored four goals.

In March 2015, Awoniyi won the African Championship with the U20 selection and took part with her at the World Cup in New Zealand , where he scored two goals in four games. In December 2015 he won the African Championship with the Nigerian U23.

titles and achievements

National team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See his profile on the FSV Frankfurt website.
  2. ↑ a b See page 15, player no. 18 of the official squad lists for the U-20 World Cup, PDF (569 KB).
  3. ↑ a b c FIFA.com : Nigeria: Awoniyi wants to continue swimming on the wave of success , May 8, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b FSV Frankfurt: FSV borrows Taiwo Awoniyi , August 31, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ Liverpool FC: Reds complete signing of Taiwo Awoniyi , August 31, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ Liverpool academy striker Taiwo Awoniyi to join NEC Nijmegen on loan , July 27, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Fix: Awoniyi comes from Liverpool , mainz05.de, accessed on August 8, 2019
  8. ↑ a b Player careers at FIFA tournaments on the FIFA website, accessed on 7 January 2020
  9. ↑ FSV Frankfurt: Awoniyi wins Africa U23 Cup of Nations 2015 , December 13, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Awoniyi, Taiwo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Awoniyi, Taiwo Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilorin , Nigeria