Personal information | |||
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Full name | Junior Sewanu Lokosa | ||
Date of birth | 23 August 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Badagry, Nigeria | ||
Position(s) | Centre-forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sporting Lagos F.C | ||
Number | 18 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2018 | First Bank | 128 | (92) |
2018–2019 | Kano Pillars | 35 | (26) |
2019–2020 | ES Tunis | 11 | (6) |
2021 | Simba Sports Club | ||
2021–2022 | Kwara United F.C. | ||
2022–2023 | Al-Rayyan | ||
2023– | Sporting Lagos F.C | ||
International career‡ | |||
2018– | Nigeria | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:04, 15 January 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:04, 15 January 2019 (UTC) |
Junior Sewanu Lokosa (born 23 August 1993) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Sporting Lagos F.C
Lokosa played for First Bank before moving to Kano Pillars in May 2017. [1] He scored five goals in 14 league games up to the end of the 2017 season. [2]
By the midway point of the 2018 season, Lokosa had scored 14 goal in 15 matches. [3] In May 2018, he went on trial with Bulgarian club Ludogorets, and he also had a trial at Norwegian club Brann. [4] [5] At the end of the season, he received the Eunisell Boot Award after his 19 goals placed him top of the NPFL scoring charts, earning him N3.8million (N200,000 for each goal). [6]
After trials in China, [7] he joined Espérance Sportive de Tunis on 14 January 2019, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract. On July 30, 2020, the Tunisian champions Espérance Sportive de Tunis announced Lokosa's departure on their Official Twitter and cut his contract. [8]
On 5 August 2022, Lokosa joined Saudi Second Division side Al-Rayyan. [9]
Lokosa made his international debut for Nigeria on 28 May 2018 in a friendly against DR Congo. [10] After his impressive form with Kano Pillars, Lokosa was named in the 30-man provisional squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [11] However, he did not make the final 23. [12]
Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||||
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Club | League | Season | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |
Kano Pillars | Nigerian League | 2017 [10] | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 14 | 5 | |||
Nigerian League | 2018 [8] [6] | 21 | 19 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 21 | 19 | ||||
Career statistics | 35 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 23 |
Nigeria | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2018 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 1 | 0 |
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