User:Charlesnkwuoh/sandbox/Abubakar Mohammed FAisal
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Abubakar Mohammed FAisal | ||
Date of birth | 16 May 2001 | ||
Place of birth | Lagos State, Nigeria | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Olympic Hybrid | ||
Number | 17 | ||
Youth career | |||
2010 | Los Sicarios F.C | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014-2016 | Doplin Feeders | 10 | (2) |
2016-2019 | Siaone Academy | 20 | (8) |
2020- | Olympic Hybrid | 5 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2008 | Nigerian National U-20 | 5 | (0) |
2011–2015 | Nigerian National U-23 | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:42, 20 June 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:42, 20 June 2021 (UTC) |
Abubakar Mohammed FAisal (born 16 May 2001) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Albanian First Division football club KF Adriatiku Mamurras. He last played for Besëlidhja Lezhë. He plays as a right or left-winger.
Emmanuel began in 2007 at the Pepsi Football Academy in Nigeria and made his way to Moldova 2008 where he played for Steaua Academy Chisinau, and Real Success in 2009. Emmanuel Lion Udemezue has been called up for the Nigeria national team several times but has not had the opportunity to play for his mother country
Early life
Emmanuel Lion Udemezue was born in Enugu Nigeria to a Christian religious family. In the year 2007, he began his football career in Nigeria at the Pepsi Football Academy in Nigeria.
Club career
Breakthrough in Moldova
In 2008, Emmanuel played for Steaua Academy Chisinau where he played 30 games, scoring 17 goals in his first Amateur seasons. He was subsequently moved in the 2009–11 season to Real Success where he set the league record scoring 30 in 44 appearances.
Emmanuel held the record for the highest goals ever scored in one season in the history of the Moldova Amateur League in 2011.
FC Zaria Balti Club
Emmanuel was transferred to Fc Zaria Balti club in summer of 2011, where he played for team B which he scored 33 goals in 25 appearances breaking another record for the B side of the Moldova Youth League. He was now Transfer in 2015 to Montenegro side OFK Mladost B where he scored 7 times in 13 Appearances. And in 2017 he moved to Fk Podogrica B which he has scored so far 21 goals in 44 Appearances.
International career
In January 2015, Emmanuel Lion confirmed the news of him been listed among the Nigeria U-23 National Team in the final preparation for the Rio Olympics 2016 camping at the Atlanta United States of America but couldn't make the final eighteen man list due to the injury he sustained at the training camp in the United States, what could have been his chance to represent Nigeria at the Olympics Football games as a Nigerian youngster player