George Elokobi
George Elokobi Nganyuo ( born January 31, 1986 in Mogadishu ) is a Cameroonian football player and is the English first division club Wolverhampton Wanderers under contract. Despite his Somali birthplace he expressed the desire due to the origin of his parents and his own roots in the hometown Kumba future to want to play for the selection of Cameroon.
Sports career
Colchester United (2004-2008)
After his arrival in England, Elokobi joined at the age of 16 years at the amateur club Dulwich Hamlet and hired two years later at the professional club Colchester United. In the professional team of the third division of the left-back came in the first game of the 2004/ 05 not to the course and so the club loaned him briefly from January to February 2005, Chester City in the Football League Two from fourth-rate. There he worked under the former Liverpool striker legend Ian Rush, the former coach of the " Blues". On 29 January 2005, he made his professional debut against Welsh opponents Swansea City ended with a 0-3 defeat. The following four games ended with disappointing defeats and Elokobis dismissal in the last game against Shrewsbury Town was an added low point during the brief interludes in Chester.
After his return to the Layer Road, he played twelve league games for Colchester in the following season 2005/ 06 and was partly responsible for the rise in the Football League Championship. He had achieved this on 24 September 2005 against Huddersfield Town in a 1-1 draw His first goal. After ten missions in the season 2006 /07 he worked in the following season a regular place in the second division team. After Elokobi but refused to agree to a contract extension and rather flirted with another club, he lost this position in the team again.
Wolverhampton Wanderers (2008 -)
However, the matter called on the Premier League rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers on the plan that was in the winter transfer window 2007/ 08 interest in an undertaking. On 31 January 2008, the two clubs agreed on a transfer, where on the amount of the transfer fee was not disclosed. Elokobi signed with the " Wolves " a contract with a term of more than 2 ½ years. Quickly, the combative left-back in the Molineux developed the status of a crowd favorite and was immediately part of the defense network. At the beginning of the season 2008/ 09 he retired in the third league match against Ipswich Town cruciate ligament injury, the months put him out of action. Only on the final day he received by a Substitutes in 85 minutes once the opportunity for a brief comeback. Notwithstanding the serious injury, the Wolves had extended its contract with Elokobi in February 2009 to the end of the season 2010/11. With the Wolves, he won the championship this season in the second division and reached the Premier League 2009/ 10 as the Fifteenth in the league. In August 2010 he signed a new three-year contract in Wolverhampton.Der re Erstligaverbleib fell in the Premier League 2010/11 significantly scarcer out. The proof used Elokobi (27 games / 2 goals) secured with the Wolves in the league until the last game with one point ahead of Birmingham City and Blackpool.
After he came to only eight league operations in the course of the 2011/12 season, Elokobi joined on January 31, 2012 on loan until the end of the season to the second division Nottingham Forest.