Agu Casmir
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Agu Casmir | ||
| Date of birth | March 23, 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Lagos, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Singapore Lions | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2002–2003 | Woodlands Wellington FC | 53 | (41) |
| 2004–2005 | Young Lions | 34 | (31) |
| 2006 | Woodlands Wellington FC | 30 | (14) |
| 2007 | Gombak United FC | 26 | (11) |
| 2008 | PDRM FA | 3 | (1) |
| 2008–2010 | Gombak United FC | 57 | (23) |
| 2010–2011 | Persija Jakarta | 21 | (9) |
| 2012– | Singapore LIONSXII | 4 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004– | Singapore | 35 | (13) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 24, 2009. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Agu Casmir (born 23 March 1984 in Lagos, Nigeria), is a professional soccer player who plays for the Singapore Lions in the Malaysian Super League and the Singapore national football team.
He took up Singapore citizenship in 2004.
In May 2008, rumors surfaced that an Indonesian club was interested in signing him. This comes 2 years after the controversial move to Persija Jakarta. But however, he signed for Malaysian Super-League side, PDRM FA. But just after 3 games, he was released, and Gombak United re-signed him.
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[edit] Club career
He has previously played for S.League clubs Young Lions and Woodlands Wellington FC in Singapore's S.League,
Agu burst onto the football scene with Woodlands Wellington FC in 2002, scoring a remarkable 27 goals as an 18 years-old. He followed that up with another 15 goals the next year. In 2004 and 2005, playing for Young Lions, he scored a total of 31 goals. He returned to Woodlands Wellington FC last year and scored 17 times, before joining Gombak United FC at the start of the current 2007 S.League season.
On September 19, 2007, Agu Casmir's 86th minute goal for the Gombak United FC, which cancelled out Home United FC Kone Hamed's 18th-minute opener, was his 100th in the S.League.
At the end of the 2007, Gombak United decided not to renew his contract and thus. Nevertheless, when the FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier game against Lebanon loomed, he trained with one of his former club, Young Lions to keep his fitness at peak condition in order to be eligible for a call up to the national team.
He didn't play for the large part of 2008 due to being clubless, but in August 2008, Malaysian club PDRM FA signed him together with Noh Alam Shah. But controversially, he was released after just 3 games, without any goals to his name. Gombak United again came to re-sign him in 2009.
Agu spent the 2011 season playing for Persija Jakarta in the Indonesian Super League. On 5 December 2011, it was announced that he would be joining the Singapore Lions team that would be returning to the Malaysian Super League for the 2012 season.
[edit] International career
He was a member of the Singapore national team, which won the Tiger Cup regional football championship in 2005.
He was part of the 2005 and 2007 SEA Games squad, the latter being a bronze-medal winning team.
His impressive displays in the tail-end of 2008 earned him a national call up for the 2008 Suzuki Cup.
He scored a last minute goal for Singapore against Myanmar to allow Singapore to promote to the next round of 2010 Suzuki Cup.
[edit] Controversy
Controversy arose over Agu Casmir when local press in Singapore reported his absence in January 2006. It was reported that Casmir signed a contract with Indonesian football club Persija Jakarta and that he took a signing-on fee of US$20,000. However, he did not report for training, claiming to be attending football trials with a Russian club and the club subsequently sought repayment of the fee from his agent, ex-footballer Jules Onana.
It was consequently reported on the 19 February 2006 in The Straits Times that Agu Casmir had purportedly been in Canada and had no intention of further pursuing a career in football. The report quoted Agu Casmir's ex-manager, R. Vengadasalam, as saying that Casmir was disillusioned with football and had no intention of returning to Singapore. He had taken the contract to prove that he could still command a large annual fee (reported at US$80,000).
After a few weeks, reports emerged that he wanted to return to playing football in Singapore. Several football clubs including Gombak United FC had expressed interest in inviting him to play for their team, before he re-signed for former club Woodlands Wellington FC on a one-year contract, under a deal in which the club would re-pay Persija Jakarta his signing-on fee.
The Football Association of Singapore suspended him from the national squad for a year and fined him S$20,000, for his actions involving Persija Jakarta.[1][2]
[edit] National team career statistics
[edit] Goals for Senior National Team
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | December 13, 2004 | Hanoi, Vietnam |  Laos |
3–1 | 6–2 (Won) | 2004 Tiger Cup |
| 2. | December 13, 2004 | Hanoi, Vietnam | Laos |
6–2 | 6–2 (Won) | 2004 Tiger Cup |
| 3. | December 29, 2004 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |  Myanmar |
2–1 | 4–3 (Won) | 2004 Tiger Cup |
| 4. | January 2, 2005 | Singapore | Myanmar |
4–2 | 4–2 (Won) | 2004 Tiger Cup |
| 5. | January 8, 2005 | Jakarta, Indonesia |  Indonesia |
3–0 | 3–1 (Won) | 2004 Tiger Cup |
| 6. | January 16, 2005 | Singapore | Indonesia |
2–0 | 2–1 (Won) | 2004 Tiger Cup |
| 7. | October 4, 2007 | Manama, Bahrain |  Bahrain |
1–? | 1–3 (Lost) | Friendly |
| 8. | December 5, 2008 | Jakarta, Indonesia |  Cambodia |
1–0 | 5–0 (Won) | 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup |
| 9. | December 5, 2008 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Cambodia |
4–0 | 5–0 (Won) | 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup |
| 10. | December 7, 2008 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Myanmar |
2–0 | 3–1 (Won) | 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup |
| 11. | December 7, 2008 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Myanmar |
3–1 | 3–1 (Won) | 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup |
| 12. | November 26, 2010 | Jurong, Singapore | Laos |
2–0 | 4–0 (Won) | Friendly |
| 13. | November 26, 2010 | Jurong, Singapore | Laos |
4–0 | 4–0 (Won) | Friendly |
| 14. | December 5, 2010 | Hanoi, Vietnam |  Myanmar |
2–1 | 2–1 (Won) | 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup |
[edit] Honours
[edit] Club
[edit] Gombak United
- League Cup: 2008
[edit] International
- Tiger Cup: 2004
- Southeast Asian Games Bronze Medallist: 2007
[edit] Individual
- 100 S.League Goals: 2007
