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Gabriel Okechukwu

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Gabriel Okechukwu
Personal information
Full name Gabriel Okechukwu
Date of birth (1995-08-28) 28 August 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Lagos, Nigeria
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Fukushima United FC
(on loan from Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo)
Youth career
200?–2013 Water FC Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Water FC 17 (19)
2013TEAP (loan) 18 (11)
2014–2015St. George's (loan) 12 (13)
2016 Karpaty Lviv 6 (1)
2017–2018 Akwa United 16 (9)
2018– Wydad Casablanca 7 (0)
2020Chabab Mohammédia (loan)
2021 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 0 (0)
2021 Fukushima United FC 2 (0)
International career
2015–2017 Nigeria U23 11 (9)
2018– Nigeria 5 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:19, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Gabriel Okechukwu (born 28 August 1995) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for on loan from Chabab Mohammédia Wydad AC as a striker.

Career

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Okechukwu is a product of Water FC Academy in Abuja. In February 2016 he signed a contract with Ukrainian club FC Karpaty.

Okechukwu was on the provisional squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup, but eventually did not play any games for this team. In May 2015 he was called up for the Nigeria national football team in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification to play against Chad national football team, but again he did not play in this match.[1]

In August 2018, Okechukwu joined Wydad Casablanca in Morocco.[2] After only seven appearances in the 2018-19 season and three in the 2019-20 season, he was loaned out to Chabab Mohammédia in January 2020.[3]

In January 2021, Nigerian forward joined Consadole Sapporo FC in Japan. Gabriel Okechukwu joins the J1 League club on a three-year deal that will keep him at the club until 2024, in a deal worth €800,000[4]

International goals

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Scores and results list Nigeria's goal tally first.[5]
No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 28 January 2018 Stade Ibn Batouta, Tangier, Morocco  Angola 2–1 2–1 (a.e.t.) 2018 African Nations Championship
2. 31 January 2018 Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco  Sudan 1–0 1–0 2018 African Nations Championship

References

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  1. ^ Eagles pick non-league striker Okechukwu Gabriel
  2. ^ Wydad Casablanca Sign Super Eagles B Star Gabriel Okechukwu, busybuddiesng.com, 16 August 2018
  3. ^ Le Wydad recrute un ex-Rajaoui, m.le360.ma, 2 January 2020
  4. ^ Three year deal flies Super Eagles striker from Morocco to Japan, panafricanfootball.com/, 29 January 2021
  5. ^ "Okechukwu, Gabriel". National Football Teams. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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