Onyekachi Okonkwo
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Onyekachi Donatus Okonkwo (born 13 May 1982 in Aba) is a Nigerian football midfielder.
Club career
Okonkwo was a member of Enyimba's winning side in the 2003 MTN CAF Champions League and 2004 MTN CAF Champions League finals.
During his two-year stay in South Africa he was arguably one of the club's most influential players even scoring the decisive goal against his former club Enyimba to lead the Johannesburg-based club Orlando Pirates to the 2006 MTN CAF Champions League semifinals.
Okonkwo caused a stir in Europe by signing a pre-contract agreement with German side FC Köln only to leave the club a week later to sign a four-year deal at Swiss side FC Zürich saying that he had only ever agreed to a one-week trial at the German team. Despite FC Köln's sporting director Klaus Horstmann threatening to take the matter to FIFA in order for him to fulfil his obligations to his side, Okonkwo says he did not breach any rules in moving to Switzerland. He joined Qatari side Al Kharitiyath in the summer of 2010.
On 26 June 2012 Okonkwo rejoined Orlando Pirates[1] and next year, on 12 July 2013, signed with local rivals Mpumalanga Black Aces.[2]
International
He won his first international cap for Nigeria in a 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Lesotho in October 2006.
Honours
FC Zürich
- Swiss Super League champions: 2008–09
References
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Igbo sportspeople
- Nigerian men's footballers
- Nigeria men's international footballers
- 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
- FC Zürich players
- Men's association football midfielders
- Orlando Pirates F.C. players
- Enyimba F.C. players
- Al Kharaitiyat SC players
- Mpumalanga Black Aces F.C. players
- Mosta F.C. players
- USD Nuorese Calcio 1930 players
- Qatar Stars League players
- Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
- Expatriate men's footballers in Malta
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Malta
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Footballers from Aba, Nigeria
- CAF Champions League–winning players
- 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen