Taribo West

Taribo West
Personnel
birthday	March 26, 1974
place of birth	Lagos ,  Nigeria
size	186 cm
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1991-1992	Sharks FC
1992-1993	Julius Berger FC (Lagos)
1993-1997	AJ Auxerre	73 (1)
1997-1999	Inter Milan	43 (1)
1999-2000	AC Milan	4 (1)
2000-2001	Derby County	18 (0)
2001-2002	1. FC Kaiserslautern	10 (0)
2002-2004	FK Partizan Belgrade	16 (1)
2004	Al-Arabi	(?) (1)
2005	Plymouth Argyle	4 (0)
2005-2007	Julius Berger FC
2007	Paykan Tehran
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1994-2005	Nigeria	42 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Taribo West (born March 26, 1974 in Lagos ) is a retired Nigerian football player .

Career

society

The central defender Taribo West began his professional career in 1993 with the French first division club AJ Auxerre under coach Guy Roux . During this time he quickly developed into one of the team's key players and Nigeria's national player . His most successful time was between 1997 and 1999 when he moved from Auxerre to the Italian Serie A at Inter Milan . In the very first year he won the UEFA Cup in the final against Lazio Rome .

As Italian runner-up, he took part in the UEFA Champions League the following year and failed in the quarter-finals at eventual winners Manchester United . After the end of the season he moved to local rivals AC Milan . At Milan, however, he was never really happy. He moved to Derby County in the English Premier League in November 2000 . Now Taribo West's wandering years began. For almost six months, from November 2001 until the end of the season, he played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga . He was then without a club for half a year before he was under contract with Partizan Belgrade from January 2003 to April 2004. After he went to Al-Arabi in Qatar in 2004/05 , he moved to England in the First Division at Plymouth Argyle at the beginning of the 2005/06 season , where he only stayed until the beginning of October 2005.

In 2007 he signed a contract with Paykan Tehran , which he broke after only one game due to unpunctual salary payments.

National team

In 1994 West was part of the Nigerian national team for the first time . Two years later he took part with her in the Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal. In the preliminary round you only had to admit defeat to Brazil , but still moved happily into the next round, as three teams in Group D had six points. In the final they met another South American team. But they kept the upper hand against Argentina and prevailed 3-2. With the national team he then took part in the 1998 World Cup in France . He then played at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea

useful information

Taribo West is considered a devout Christian who even founded his own church in Milan. After growing up as a street gangster in Port Harcourt , he found Christianity through the experience of watching one of his gang members being beaten to death .

Oddities

West moved in 2001 from Derby County to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He said he was 27 years old. Just five months later he moved to the Serbian club Partizan Belgrade. There he stated to be 28. The ex-President of Belgrade, Zarko Zezevic, is quoted as saying that West must have been 40 years old: “He came to us when he was 28. We later found out that he was actually 40. But he still played well, so I have not regretted that he was with us. ”The significantly older age is said to have been determined during a sports medical examination. However, details were not given by the British newspaper Daily Mail . Therefore, these facts are to be viewed as questionable. West denies these allegations.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "According to the ex-president: Taribo West was 40 years old."
2. ↑ "Taribo West 'was 40 when he said he was 28', claims former Partizan Belgrade chief"
3. ^ "Taribo West is 51 not 39 - Club President" ( Memento from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )