Adebowale Ogungbure

Adebowale Ogungbure (born 13 July 1981 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian football player who also has the German nationality.

Career

Association

As a youth player Ogungbure was with the club FC Asaco Cotonu, NEAP Lagos and Lagos Nigerdock.

His first experience at senior level, he gained the second Mannschdft of the 1st FC Nuremberg before it was part of the first team in the second division in the 2000 /01 season. His first professional application denied Ogungbure on matchday 12 this season when he came off the bench in the match against VfL Osnabrück in 83 minutes for Armin Störzenhofecker. Overall Ogungbure denied in season nine second division games. At the end of the season he went to the club to the Bundesliga.

After only three missions in the first round in 2001/ 02 he decided to switch 05 during the winter break for second division side SSV Reutlingen. In the summer of 2003 and the descent with the SSV, he moved to Erstligaabsteiger Energie Cottbus. After two seasons and the fast descent he had to leave Cottbus and joined by lack of offers from the higher leagues to the Oberliga FC Sachsen Leipzig.

In the 2007 /08 season he was playing for a second division team, this time for Kickers Offenbach. His contract was not renewed after the descent and he got no further offers. Therefore, he was without a club.

In the summer of 2010 he played for half a year for the Hessian Kreiligisten SG Auheim from the Main- Kinzig-Kreis.

In January 2011 he accepted an offer of Vietnam's V- League clubs XM The Vissai Ninh Binh.

National

Ogungbure already played twice for Nigeria.

"The case Ogungbure "

For nationwide caused a stir Ogungbure when he showed the Nazi salute during league match against FC Halleschen the opposing fans. He was responding to the racist insults against his person by the Halle fans that he had to endure during the entire game. The hall prosecutor's office then a criminal complaint against Ogungbure because of the use of a flag of an unconstitutional organization, procedure introduced a little later but again. Since this action Ogungbure received nationwide expressions of sympathy, but had to continue to endure racist taunts at the league games, like for example in the championship game of the league season 2006/2007, as Sachsen Leipzig took up again against the Halle FC, ​​or in April 2007 as Energie Cottbus II played at the Central Stadium and the fans posters with racist invective held high.

At a recent incident took place on 10 November 2006 on the edge of the Oberliga - point game of FC Sachsen Leipzig at VFC Plauen, Plauen won the 1-0. After the final whistle, grabbed Adebowale Ogungbure his Ukrainian opponent Andrij Zapyschnyi with a fist in the face of physical violence. Trigger the attack to have been racist insults against Ogungbure Zapyschnyis. Ogungbure was then suspended for four games. The lock was below the minimum sentence of six games because the sports court regarded it as established that Ogungbure was previously abused repeatedly racist. Zapyschnyi had to pay a fine of 300 euros.