Bassey Akpan

Bassey Akpan
Personal information
Full name Bassey Akpan
Date of birth (1984-01-06) January 6, 1984
Place of birth Eket, Nigeria
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Abia Warriors F.C.
Youth career
Bright Stars Football Academy
Bayelsa United F.C.
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002-2003 Shooting Stars F.C. 10 (0)
2003-2005 Bayelsa United F.C. 91 (0)
2005-2006 Sunshine Stars F.C. 28 (0)
2006-2007 Kwara United F.C. 24 (0)
2007-2010 Bayelsa United F.C. 45 (0)
2008Heartland F.C. (loan) 20 (0)
2011-2014 Hoàng Anh Gia Lai F.C. 56 (0)
2015- Bayelsa United F.C. 3
2015-Abia Warriors F.C. (loan)
National team
2001 Nigeria U-17 6 (0)
2010- Nigeria 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Bassey Akpan (born January 6, 1984 in Eket, Akwa Ibom State) is a Nigerian football (soccer) player currently with Abia Warriors F.C. on loan from Bayelsa United.

Career

Akpan wears size 7½ or small 8 boot and loves jersey number 18. He has a Nigerian FA Cup bronze medal with the Sunshine Stars F.C. of Akure in 2002. On 3 August 2008 left Bayelsa United F.C. and move on loan to Heartland F.C.,[1] returning in September to Bayelsa.[2] He rejoined Heartland ahead of the 2010-11 season after Bayelsa was relegated. He signed for Hoang Anh Gia Lai Club in Vietnam on a one-year contract in October 2011.[3]

He re-signed with Bayelsa ahead of the 2015 Nigeria season. After three games he joined Abia Warriors on loan for the rest of the season.[4]

International career

In 2001, he was in the Nigerian U-17 squad at the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship that took place in Trinidad & Tobago which lost in the final game[5] to earn a well-deserved silver medal, earning Akpan the best goalkeeper award of the tournament.

He made his full senior debut on March 3, 2010 as a late substitute in the 5-2 win over Congo DR. He was also Nigeria's number one goalkeeper in the 2010 WAFU Nations Cup and won the Gold Medal[6]

References

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