Kingsley Onuegbu

Kingsley Onuegbu

Onuegbu in 2013
Personal information
Date of birth	5 March 1986
Place of birth	Kaduna, Nigeria
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current team	MSV Duisburg
Number	10
Youth career
2005–2007	SC Idar-Oberstein
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2007–2008	SC Idar-Oberstein	26	(12)
2008–2010	Eintracht Braunschweig	58	(17)
2010–2013	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	21	(6)
2011–2013	→ SpVgg Greuther Fürth II	18	(5)
2012	→ SV Sandhausen (loan)	13	(1)
2013–	MSV Duisburg	99	(32)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:11, 29 April 2016 (UTC). † Appearances (goals)

Kingsley Ugochuwu (born 5 March 1986) is a Nigerian footballer currently playing for MSV Duisburg.^[1][2][3]

Career

He played only street soccer in Nigeria,^[4] before his football career began in Germany in the summer of 2005 with SC Idar-Oberstein. In his first professional season for Idar-Oberstein in 2007–08, Onuegbu scored twelve goals in 26 games. In the summer of 2008 he joined Eintracht Braunschweig. On 11 May 2010, he left Braunschweig to sign with SpVgg Greuther Fürth. He signed with MSV Duisburg in 2013.

Personal life

He was born as Kingsley Ugochuwu and moved with twenty years from Lagos, Nigeria to his father to Paris, France.^[5]

References

1. "Kingsley Onuegbu". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
2. "Onuegbu, Kingsley" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
3. "Kingsley Onuegbu" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
4. "Kingsley Onuegbu hat die Kritiker schnell widerlegt". newsclick.de (in German). 4 December 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
5. "Er stürmt mit neuem Namen" (in German). bild.de. 3 July 2008. Retrieved 21 August 2010.