Yakubu Aiyegbeni

Yakubu 2008 jersey the Nigerian National

Yakubu Aiyegbeni ( born November 22, 1982 in Benin City ), known as Yakubu, is a Nigerian football player. The striker is currently playing in the Chinese Super League at Guangzhou R & F Football Club.

Career

Association

The first club was the striker Julius Berger, a club in the capital of Lagos in his home country Nigeria. In 1999 Aiyegbeni to Hapoel Kfar Saba Israel. After a year he was at Maccabi Haifa awarded first and then bought by the very successful first few months. In the season 2002/ 03 he obtained with his hat-trick in the Champions League against Olympiakos Piraeus and his total of five goals in five games, the attention of the Western European clubs. In January 2003, the Nigerian was given to the English club Portsmouth, where he won and was therefore purchased after geschafften promotion to the Premier League in April 2003. In his first season in the Premier League he met 16 times and thus made ​​his final breakthrough. In 2005, he kept his team with his goal for a 1-1 draw against Bolton from relegation. In summer 2005, the two-footed Africans moved for 9.75 million euros for the Liga rivals Middlesbrough FC, where he also met regularly. Prior to the 2007/ 08 season, Yakubu moved for 18 million euros to the English tradition of Club Everton, where he hit 15 in his first season in the Premier League achieved the same that finished fifth in the scoring charts. The 2008/09 season started very well for him, he met in the first two games. However, Yakubu tore the away game against Tottenham Hotspur in November 2008, the Achilles tendon and was thus made ​​for the rest of the season.

On 31 August 2011, he moved to Blackburn Rovers.

On June 28, 2012, he was from the Chinese club Guangzhou R & F FC committed.

National

Aiyegbeni played since 2000 in the Nigerian national football team and participated in 2002, 2004 and 2008, part of the Africa Cup. Previously, he played 57 times for Nigeria, scoring 21 goals. He made his debut in April 2000 against the Eritrean national soccer team.

Achievements

  • Israeli champion: 2001, 2002
  • Israeli League Cup Winners: 2002
  • UEFA Cup finals: 2006
Bridge Boys F.C. Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C. Maccabi Haifa F.C. Portsmouth F.C. Middlesbrough F.C. Leicester City F.C. Blackburn Rovers F.C. Bolton Wanderers F.C. Africa Cup of Nations
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