Brian Idowu
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Brian Oladapo Idowu[1] | ||
Date of birth | 18 May 1992 | ||
Place of birth | Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lokomotiv Moscow | ||
Number | 3 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999– | Smena-Zenit | ||
–2010 | Zenit St. Petersburg | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2018 | Amkar Perm | 87 | (1) |
2013–2014 | → Dynamo St. Petersburg (loan) | 25 | (1) |
2018– | Lokomotiv Moscow | 2 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2017– | Nigeria | 8 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 September 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 June 2018 |
Brian Oladapo Idowu (Template:Lang-ru; born 18 May 1992) is a Russian-Nigerian professional football player who currently plays as a left-back for Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow and the Nigeria national team.
Career
Club
Born in Saint Petersburg to a Nigerian father and a Russian-Nigerian mother, Idowu moved to Owerri, Nigeria at early age, and later moved back to Russia.
He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Amkar Perm on 6 May 2012 in a game against FC Terek Grozny.[2]
After a loan spell with Dynamo St Petersburg during the 2013–14 season, Idowu signed a new 3-year deal with Amkar on 30 June 2014,[3] extending his contract again in February 2017 until the summer of 2020.[4]
On 10 July 2018, he signed a 3-year contract with FC Lokomotiv Moscow.[5]
International
In November 2017, Idowu was called up to the Nigerian national team for their friendly against Argentina in Krasnodar on 14 November 2017.[6] Idowu made his debut against Argentina on 14 November, coming on as a half-time substitute for Ola Aina, and scoring Nigeria's third goal in a 4-2 win.[7]
In May 2018 he was named in Nigeria's preliminary 30-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[8]
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 20 May 2018[9]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Amkar Perm | 2011–12 | Russian Premier League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
2012–13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
2013–14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||||
2014–15 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 0 | ||||
2015–16 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 25 | 1 | ||||
2016–17 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 1 | ||||
2017–18 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | 2[a] | 0 | 32 | 1 | |||
Total | 87 | 1 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 99 | 3 | ||
Dynamo St. Petersburg (loan) | 2013–14 | Russian National League | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 1 | ||
Career total | 112 | 2 | 11 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 125 | 4 |
Notes
- ^ Two appearances in relegation play-offs
International
Nigeria | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2017 | 1 | 1 |
2018 | 7 | 0 |
Total | 8 | 1 |
Statistics accurate as of match played 26 June 2018[10]
International goal
- As of 14 November 2017
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref |
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1. | 14 November 2017 | Krasnodar Stadium, Krasnodar, Russia | Argentina | Friendly | [7] |
Personal
Idowu's father is Nigerian and his mother is half-Russian, half-Nigerian. He was born and raised in St. Petersburg, except for a period when he was aged 3 to 6 when he lived in Owerri, Nigeria.[11] Idowu speaks perfect Russian and acted as a makeshift translator of the Nigerian national team at news conference ahead of a fixture in Krasnodar in November 2017.[12]
References
- ^ a b "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Game report by RFPL". Russian Premier League. 6 May 2012. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012.
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- ^ "АМКАР ПРОДЛИЛ КОНТРАКТ С ИДОВУ ДО 2020 ГОДА". sport-express.ru (in Russian). Sport Express. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Идову подписал контракт с «Локомотивом»" (in Russian). FC Lokomotiv Moscow. 10 July 2018.
- ^ "World Cup Qualification: Brian Idowu Joins Team". thenationonlineng.net. The Nation. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Argentina 2-3 Nigeria". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ http://www.goal.com/en-gb/amp/news/revealed-every-world-cup-2018-squad-23-man-preliminary-lists/oa0atsduflsv1nsf6oqk576rb
- ^ "B.Idowu". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Brian Idowu". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ "Разговор по пятницам". Выпуск №15 (in Russian). FC Amkar Perm.
- ^ Yokhin, Michael (16 November 2017). "Brian Idowu's journey from St Petersburg to Nigeria may end at World Cup". ESPN FC. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
External links
- 1992 births
- Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg
- Living people
- Nigerian footballers
- Nigeria international footballers
- Russian footballers
- Nigerian people of Russian descent
- Russian people of Nigerian descent
- Russian people of Yoruba descent
- Association football defenders
- Russian Premier League players
- FC Amkar Perm players
- FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
- FC Lokomotiv Moscow players
- Yoruba sportspeople
- 2018 FIFA World Cup players
- Russian football defender, 1990s births stubs