Rabiu Afolabi

Rabiu Afolabi ( born April 18, 1980 in Oshogbo ) is a Nigerian football player with a Belgian passport to the position of a defender.

Club career

Rabius first football stop was the NEPA Lagos in Nigeria, but which he left in 1997 to Belgium and moved to Standard Liege. There he became a regular player and became the season 2000/ 01 awarded to Napoli. There, however, he could not prevail, and returned without insert for the Italian Serie A club back to standard. 2003, the then Austrian champions FK Austria Wien secured the rights of the defender. With Austria, he came in 2004 /05 to the UEFA Cup quarter-finals, but retired there from against AC Parma. After the success in Vienna in 2005 paid the FC Sochaux 2 million euros to Austria Vienna and could thus Afolabi bring in the Ligue 1.

29 August 2009 Rabiu Afolabi moved to FC Red Bull Salzburg, where he. Immediately, as a regular in the center of defense, the Austrian championship won On 7 November 2010, he played with his Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga hundredth game (60 for FK Austria Wien, Red Bull Salzburg 40 ). After his second season in Salzburg, his contract was not renewed and Afolabi was able to find a new club. A commitment failed in the Glasgow Rangers or Eintracht Frankfurt and so he moved just before the end of transfer to the AS Monaco in Ligue 2, where he will help with his routine the club at the target immediate promotion back to Ligue 1.

National

Rabiu Afolabi in 1999 played an important role in the U19 African Cup of Nations, when he scored both goals for the 2-0 win in the semi-final against Cameroon. But in the final he was defeated by the Nigeria U19 team from Ghana 0:1. After that, he was captain of the U20 national team and led them to the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 1999.

His debut in the national team of Nigeria he gave on 17 June 2000 at the World Cup qualifier against Sierra Leone. He was also part of the Nigerian team that participated in the 2002 World Cup in Japan / South Korea and the Africa Cup 2008 in Ghana.

Achievements

  • Best defender Jupiler League: 2003, 2004
  • Austrian champion: 2010
  • Austrian Cup: 2005
  • Austrian Supercup: 2004, 2005
  • Coupe de France: 2007
  • UEFA Cup ¼ Finalist: 2005
  • World Cup participants: 2002.2010
Osogbo Defender (association football) FC Sochaux-Montbéliard AS Monaco FC Italy Parma F.C. 2008 Africa Cup of Nations 2004–05 UEFA Cup
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