Victor Ikpeba

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Victor Ikpeba
Personnel
Surname Victor Nosa Ikpeba
birthday June 12, 1973
place of birth Benin City ,  Nigeria
size 174 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989 ACB Lagos
1989-1993 FC Liege 79 (27)
1993-1999 AS Monaco 170 (55)
1999-2002 Borussia Dortmund 30 0(3)
2001-2002 →  Betis Sevilla  (loan) 3 0(0)
2002-2003 Al-Ittihad 26 0(7)
2004 Sporting Charleroi 15 0(5)
2005 Al-Sadd
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996 Nigeria Olympics 06 0(1)
1992-2002 Nigeria 31 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.

Victor Nosa Ikpeba (born June 12, 1973 in Benin City ) is a former Nigerian football player .

Career

After his youth at ACB Lagos , he moved to the Belgian club FC Lüttich , where he could play with his compatriot Sunday Oliseh . In 1993 the striker was voted the best African footballer in the Belgian league and then signed by AS Monaco . There he experienced the best years of his career under coach Arsène Wenger in the following time, including winning the French championship in 1997, to which he contributed 13 goals, and being voted Africa's Footballer of the Year in the same year. In 1999 Borussia Dortmund signed the striker for a transfer fee of € 6 million. Reggina Calcio almost signed him , but his wife Veronica is said to have locked him in the house on the day the contract was signed because she liked it so much in Monaco. After his wife, who left him with three children, died of breast cancer in May 2000, he never found his way back to his old form. In his two years at BVB, he was unable to assert himself (only 3 goals in 30 games) and in 2001 switched to Betis Sevilla on loan for a year . But even at Betis he could not draw attention to himself positively, because the coach considered him overweight, he only made 3 appearances for Betis. In 2002 he moved back to Africa to the Libyan club Al-Ittihad . Due to financial dissonance, Ikpeba left the club prematurely in 2003, so that he was without a club for half a year. In 2004 the Nigerian signed a six-month contract with Sporting Charleroi , where Robert Waseige , who discovered him in 1989, was coach. In 2005 Ikpeba ended his career after playing briefly in Doha with Al-Sadd .

He played a total of 30 international matches for the Nigerian national soccer team and took part in the 1994 soccer World Cup in the USA . At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , he won the gold medal with the Nigerian selection. He also took part in an African Championship four times , where he won gold in 1994 . In 2000 he was on the verge of repeating this triumph. However, in the penalty shootout in the final, his penalty was not recognized even though he was clearly behind the line. Nwankwo Kanu also missed his penalty against Cameroon .

successes

society

National team

Personal awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ guardian.co.uk: Footballers whose loved ones have told them who to play for , March 5, 2008
  2. ↑ welt.de: Viktor Ikpeba is learning to laugh again , September 5, 2000
  3. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Ikpeba rejects Saints for Betis , August 9, 2001
  4. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Ikpeba gives his reasons , September 30, 2002
  5. ↑ kicker online: Ikpeba is back , January 12, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Ikpeba, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ikpeba, Victor Nosa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Benin City , Nigeria