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 27)
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. [3]

Contents

Club career

In August 2017, Amuzie moved on loan from Sampdoria to Lugano. [4]

International career

Amuzie was selected by Nigeria national under-23 football team for their 35-man provisional squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics. [5] 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. [6]

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