Sodiq Suraj

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Sodiq Suraj
Personal information
Full name Sodiq Suraj [1]
Date of birth (1988-01-08) 8 January 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Oshogbo, Nigeria
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder or Defender
Team information
Current team
 Osun United
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2003–2005 Prime 25 (3)
2005 First Bank 18 (1)
2006–2008 Sunshine Stars 27 (2)
2008 → Teleoptik (loan) 7 (0)
2009 Kwara United 23 (3)
2010–2012 Prime 33 (4)
2012–2013 Olympique Safi 9 (0)
2013–2014 Duhok SC 23 (0)
2014–2015 Naft Al-Wasat SC
2015–2018 Shooting Stars 21 (1)
2018–2020 Ifeanyi Ubah
2020–2021 Arta/Solar7
2021– Osun United
International career‡
2007 Nigeria U-20 14 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 August 2013
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 October 2013

Sodiq Suraj (born 8 January 1988 in Oshogbo) is Nigerian football player who plays for Osun United.

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Career

Sodiq Suraj is a central defender who can also play as defensive midfielder. [2] [3] In 2008, he played in Serbian second level in FK Partizan's satellite team FK Teleoptik. [3] [4] In the season 2012–13 he played for OC Safi at Moroccan top division. [3] In October 2013 he signed with Duhok SC in the Iraqi Premier League. [3] Next season, in 2014, he switched to another Iraqi club, Naft Al-Wasat SC. [5] [6]

Position

His natural position is defender and is a variable and strong defence man. Sodiq plays as Libero or as Left full back on the national team. [7]

International career

Sodiq Suraj played with Nigeria U-20 at the 2007 African Youth Championship where they were losing finalists, thus qualifying for the U-20 World Cup. Next he played with Nigeria national under-20 football team, [8] at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada [9] where they reached the quarter-finals. [3]

Honours

Nigeria U-20

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References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 5 July 2007. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Suraj Sodiq, um nome a ter em conta" [Sodiq Suraj, a name to pay attention to] (in Portuguese). Futebol O Desporto Rei. 9 April 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sodiq Suraj joins Iraqi club at mtnfootball.com, 29-10-2013, retrieved 31-20-2016 Archived 31 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Profile at Srbijafudbal Archived 27 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Foreign Players in the Iraqi Premier League at RSSSF
  6. ↑ Sodiq Suraj at zerozero.pt
  7. ↑ [ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 October 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ FIFA Stats
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