Stanley Amuzie

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Stanley Amuzie
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Amuzie (right) at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name Stanley Amuzie
Date of birth (1996-02-28) 28 February 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Lagos, Nigeria
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) [1]
Position(s) Centre-back, Left-back [2]
Youth career
0000–2014 Parma
2014–2015 Sampdoria
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015–2016 Olhanense 13 (1)
2016–2018 Sampdoria 0 (0)
2017–2018 → Lugano (loan) 13 (0)
2018–2019 Lugano 3 (0)
2019–2020 Aluminij 28 (0)
2020 FF Jaro 18 (0)
2021 KPV 24 (1)
International career
2016 Nigeria U23 6 (0)
2016 Nigeria 2 (0)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:13, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Stanley Amuzie (born 28 February 1996) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or left-back.

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Club career

In August 2017, Amuzie moved on loan from Sampdoria to Lugano. [3]

International career

Amuzie was selected by Nigeria national under-23 football team for their 35-man provisional squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics. [4] He debuted for the senior Nigeria national football team in a 1–1 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tie against Egypt on 25 March 2016. [5]

Career statistics

As of 11 June 2024 [6]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [lower-alpha 1] ContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Olhanense 2015–16 LigaPro 131–––131
Sampdoria 2016–17 Serie A 0000––00
Lugano (loan) 2017–18 Swiss Super League 13010––140
Lugano 2018–19 Swiss Super League3010––40
Aluminij 2018–19 Slovenian PrvaLiga 15020––170
2019–20 Slovenian PrvaLiga13030––160
Total280500000330
Jaro 2020 Ykkönen 180–––180
KPV 2021Ykkönen24130––271
Career total99210000001092

Honours

Nigeria U23

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References

  1. ↑ Stanley Amuzie Archived 26 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine . rio2016.com
  2. ↑ Stanley Amuzie at WorldFootball.net
  3. ↑ "Amuzie passa al Lugano a titolo temporaneo con obbligo di riscatto". sampdoria.it (in Italian). 30 August 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  4. ↑ Oluwashina Okeleji (24 June 2016). "Kelechi Iheanacho included in Nigeria's Olympics squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Football, CAF – Confederation of African. "CAF – Competitions – Q CAN 2017 – Match Details". www.cafonline.com.
  6. ↑ Stanley Amuzie at Soccerway. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  7. ↑ "Nigeria's footballers win Olympic bronze" – via www.bbc.co.uk.


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