Samuel Eduok

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Samuel Eduok
Personal information
Full name Samuel Emem Eduok [1]
Date of birth (1994-01-31) 31 January 1994 (age 29) [1]
Place of birth Itu, Nigeria
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Winger, striker
Team information
Current team
 Hajduk Split
Number 11
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011–2014 Dolphins
2013 → Akwa United (loan)
2015–2017 Espérance 24 (7)
2016–2017 → Kasımpaşa (loan) 29 (4)
2017–2019 Kasımpaşa 78 (19)
2019 BB Erzurumspor 15 (4)
2019– Hajduk Split 34 (12)
2020 → Konyaspor (loan) 4 (0)
International career‡
Nigeria U20
2015– Nigeria 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:53, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:54, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Samuel Emem Eduok (born 31 January 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker for Croatian club Hajduk Split. [2] [3]

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Club career

Born in Itu, [1] Eduok played for Dolphins and Akwa United, [4] and was the second-top scorer in the 2014 Nigeria Premier League with 20 goals. [5] In December 2014 he signed a contract with Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08; after changing his mind he signed a second contract with Tunisian club Espérance in January 2015, resulting in a transfer row. [5] He completed the transfer to Espérance later that month. [6]

He moved initially on loan to Turkish club Kasımpaşa in August 2016. [7] The loan deal became permanent at the end of the 2016–17 season. [1]

In January 2019 he signed for BB Erzurumspor. [8] He left the club at the end of the season.

On 19 July 2019 Eduok signed for Croatian First Football League club HNK Hajduk Split. He signed a 3-year contract and was given the number 11 shirt. [9] Eduok scored on debut for Hajduk, coming off the bench and netting the 3rd goal in a 3–0 win over NK Varaždin at Stadion Varteks. [10]

In August 2020 he signed for Turkish club Konyaspor on loan. [11]

International career

Eduok has played for the Nigeria under-20s, [1] [5] and played at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. [12]

On Friday, 7 November 2014, he scored the first professional goal at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, via a 35th-minute header off Solomon Kwambe's assist, as the home-based Super Eagles beat Ghana U23 team 1–0, in an unofficial international friendly held to commission the sports complex. [13] [14] [15]

He had to pull out of the senior national team in January 2015 due to his ongoing club transfer row. [5]

He made his senior debut as a 69th-minute substitute in the 2017 Cup of Nations qualifier at Tanzania. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Samuel Eduok at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Hajduk i službeno predstavio novo pojačanje! Eduok potpisao na tri godine". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Nigerijac Samuel Eduok novi napadač Hajduka". NACIONAL.HR (in Croatian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Samuel Eduok". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Oluwashina Okeleji (8 January 2015). "Nigerian striker Emem Eduok makes plea to join Esperance". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Shina Oludare (22 January 2015). "Tunisian giants Esperance unveil Emem Eduok". Goal.com. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  7. ↑ SAMUEL EDUOK KASIMPAŞA'DA‚ milliyet.com.tr, 29 August 2016
  8. ↑ "Eduok Erzurumspor'da". CNN Türk.
  9. ↑ "Hajduk i službeno predstavio novo pojačanje! Eduok potpisao na tri godine". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  10. ↑ "Varaždin – Hajduk 0:3 – Hrvatski Telekom Prva liga". prvahnl.hr. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Nigerijac Samuel Eduok posuđen u Konyaspor, Hajduk se barem privremeno riješio najskupljeg igrača". Novi list. 26 August 2020.
  12. ↑ Samuel Eduok – FIFA competition record (archived)
  13. ↑ "Nigeria 1–0 Ghana: Eduok's header wins Uyo stadium opener for Super Eagles". Goal.com. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  14. ↑ "Nigeria opens new stadium with Ghana friendly". Confederation of African Football. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "Eduok Hands Super Eagles Narrow Victory Over Ghana". Soccer Laduma. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.


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