Nnamdi Oduamadi
Nnamdi Chidiebere Oduamadi ( born October 17, 1990 in Lagos) is a Nigerian football player at the position of a striker.
Career
Career start in the home
His active career as a football player began Oduamadi in his native Nigeria, where he held until recently in one of the 14 centers of the Pepsi Football Academy, a group sponsored by Pepsi Youth Football institution to promote football. From there he was already in March 2008 to Europe, where he joined the Italian top club AC Milan joined, this only officially took him in January 2009 under contract. For AC Milan, he came right after shooting the Primavera team, the junior team of Milan, in some games of the juniors used. By the end of the season Oduamadi was able to record five hits and was in front of Luca Scapuzzi with four goals the best scorer of the team.
For the 2011/12 season Oduamadi was loaned to FC Turin.
The first successes in the junior and pro debut
In the 2009/10 season Oduamadi developed into a true scorer in the U-20 team. In all the league games of the Primavera teams of the rather diminutive but quick striker came on 13 goals and was the top scorer of the team. Especially through his goalscoring came the team to the finals of the Coppa Italia Primavera, where mainly Oduamadis strike partner Gianmarco Zigoni shone as a scorer and the team almost single-handedly led to the first Nachwuchscuptitel since the season 1984/85. In addition, the successful also as a striker Simone Verdi scored in the 2-0 victory in the final second leg a goal. In the league divided the team after they ranked with 54 points from 26 league games with six points behind the next generation of Inter Milan in the second place, in the quarter- finals of the play-offs against the juniors Sampdoria Genoa.
After the success in the youth of the Nigerian-born came in the 2010/11 season to his league debut for the first team. Once in the U.S., he was already 26 July 2009 in a friendly match against local rivals Inter Milan to his team debut and then also took part in further building games of the professional team, he celebrated 18 September 2010 in a 1-1 home draw against Catania Calcio his competitive debut. Here, the 19 -year-old came in the 85th minute for the veteran Filippo Inzaghi on the pitch.
Even before the start of the season were of the association line of AC Milan and Genoa CFC of the transfer rights of the Nigerian striker redetermined. Having previously the Milanese had the whole transfer rights to Oduamadi, these were divided during the course of the hearing on the AC Milan and Genoa CFC interested, after the club had committed from the north- west of Italy to buy Oduamadi. As part of this contract, the Greek Sokratis Papastathopoulos, his character has been transferred back at the Genoese, for Associazione Calcio Milan. Besides Oduamadi the transfer rights of Rodney Strasser and Gianmarco Zigoni were also divided between the two clubs. Only less than a month after the negotiation of this contract had the opportunity on loan to Genoa to change the Nigerian middle of August 2010, which he ultimately failed, however, and was still waiting for his professional debut at the Milanese at this time.
Achievements
- Coppa Italia Primavera: 2010 with the youth team of AC Milan
- Italian Championship: 2011 with AC Milan