Abdulrazak Ekpoki

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Abdulrazak Ekpoki
Personal information
Full name Abdulrazak Mohammed Ekpoki
Date of birth (1982-10-17) 17 October 1982 (age 40)
Place of birth Kano, Nigeria
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
NK Rovinj
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997–1999 Kano Pillars 34 (12)
1999–2001 Plateau United 45 (7)
2001–2003 Ismaily 22 (2)
2004 Negeri Sembilan FA 17 (5)
2004–2005 Ljubljana 24 (10)
2005–2006 Gimnàstic de Tarragona 26 (2)
2006–2007 UD Vecindario 11 (1)
2007–2008 Gorica 23 (14)
2008–2009 KAA Gent 4 (0)
2009–2010 Drava Ptuj 24 (6)
2010 Sông Lam Nghệ An
2013– NK Rovinj 1
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Abdul Razak Mohammed Ekpoki (born 27 October 1982, in Kano, Nigeria) is a retired Nigerian football retired striker who last played for NK Rovinj.

Career

He started his career in Nigeria playing with Kano Pillars and Plateau United before moving to Egypt in 2000. and winning Egyptian Premier League title in 2003. with Ismaily. In 2003. he joined Malaysian club from Seremban Negeri Sembilan FA, after a successful year in Malaysia Ekpoki moved to Slovenia to start his European career with NK Ljubljana. Following some good matches in Slovenia he was noticed by Spanish manager who took him to Spain to join squad of Gimnàstic de Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain which that year 2005-2006 got promoted to Liga football Primera after 56 years. Year later Ekpoki re-enforced UD Vecindario a team from Canary Islands . Afterwards he played with HIT Gorica again in Slovenia. In summer 2008 he signed a contract until 30 June 2008 with K.A.A. Gent of the Belgium Jupiler League. He also played with Slovenian NK Drava Ptuj before moving to Vietnam and playing with V-League club Sông Lam Nghệ An. He played ten league games scoring five goals. He also played the FA Cup final where he scored the only goal that saw Sông Lam winning the Vietnamese cup in 2010. He remained in Vietnam before moving back to his family in Europe. He resurfaced in Croatia, joining the ranks of the Treća HNL Zapad team NK Rovinj near the end of 2013.

He is nicknamed Razak.


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