Uche Henry Agbo

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Uche Agbo
Personal information
Full name Uche Henry Agbo [1]
Date of birth (1995-12-04) 4 December 1995 (age 28)
Place of birth Kano, Nigeria
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder / Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Aktobe
Number 4
Youth career
Bai Boys
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–2011 Taraba ? (1)
2011–2012 JUTH ? (1)
2012–2013 Enyimba 1 (0)
2013–2016 Udinese 0 (0)
2014–2015 → Granada B (loan) 57 (4)
2015–2016 → Granada (loan) 7 (0)
2016–2017 Watford 0 (0)
2016–2017 → Granada (loan) 31 (0)
2017–2020 Standard Liège 45 (1)
2019 → Rayo Vallecano (loan) 6 (0)
2019 → Braga (loan) 1 (0)
2020 → Deportivo La Coruña (loan) 9 (0)
2020–2021 Deportivo La Coruña 18 (0)
2021–2023 Slovan Bratislava 40 (1)
2024– Aktobe 3 (0)
International career‡
2013 Nigeria U20 3 (0)
2017 Nigeria 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:18, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:14 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Uche Henry Agbo (born 4 December 1995) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as either a centre-back or a defensive midfielder. [2]

Contents

Club career

Born in Kano, Uche started playing for local lowly Bai Boys, and moved to Taraba in 2010. [3] In May 2011 he signed for JUTH, [4] and appeared regularly for the side, scoring once.

In January 2012 Uche joined Enyimba International along with teammate James Amankwei. [5] He made his debut for the club on 28 April 2013, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–0 win against Dolphins. [6]

In October 2013, Uche went on a trial at Udinese, [7] signing a four-year deal in the following month. [8] In March 2014 he moved to Granada CF, linking up with the Andalusians also until 2018 and being assigned to the reserves in Segunda División B. [9]

On 23 February 2015, Uche made his first team – and La Liga – debut, replacing Javi Márquez in the dying minutes of a 2–1 away loss against Levante UD. [10] On 25 July of the following year, he signed a five-year contract with Premier League club Watford, being immediately loaned back to Granada for one year. [11]

On 11 July 2017, Uche joined Belgian club Standard de Liège. [12] On 31 January 2019, he returned to Spain and its first division after agreeing to a six-month loan at Rayo Vallecano, with an option to buy. [13] In doing so, he said that he had turned down a big-money move to China, as his career development was more important. [14]

On 21 January 2020, after a six-month loan spell at S.C. Braga, Uche agreed to a deal with Deportivo de La Coruña, still owned by Standard. [15]

On 1 September 2021, following mass exodus from La Coruña, Agbo was announced as a signing of reigning Slovak champions Slovan Bratislava on a three-year contract. His performance against Slovan from the Europa League was recalled in his introduction. [16]

International career

Uche got his first call up to the senior Nigeria side to replace the injured Leon Balogun for a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Zambia in October 2016. [17] On 1 June 2017, he made his international debut for Nigeria in a 3–0 win against Togo in a friendly replacing Wilfred Ndidi. [18] [19]

Uche was included in Nigeria's preliminary 30-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, [20] but he did not make the final 23-man squad. [21]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 13 October 2023 [22]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational CupLeague CupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Granada B (loan) 2013–14 Segunda División B 41————41
2014–15 291————291
2015–16 242————242
Total57400000000574
Granada (loan) 2014–15 La Liga 1000———10
2015–16 6040———100
2016–17 31010———320
Total38050000000435
Standard Liège 2017–18 Belgian First Division A 35150—6 [lower-alpha 1] 0—461
2018–19 10010——1 [lower-alpha 2] 0120
Total45160006010581
Rayo Vallecano (loan) 2018–19 La Liga6000———60
Braga (loan) 2019–20 Primeira Liga 1000202 [lower-alpha 3] 0—50
Deportivo La Coruña (loan) 2019–20 Segunda División 9000———90
Deportivo La Coruña 2020–21 Segunda División B14010———150
Total23010000000240
Slovan Bratislava 2021–22 Slovak First League 20041—6 [lower-alpha 4] 0—301
2022–23 Slovak First League16150—10 [lower-alpha 5] 0—311
2023–24 Slovak First League2000—00—20
Total381910016000632
Slovan Bratislava II 2021–22 Slovak Second League 20————20
2022–23 Slovak Second League50————50
2023–24 Slovak Second League20————20
Total900000000090
Career total17051202080101935
  1. ↑ Four appearances in UEFA Europa League, two appearances in UEFA Champions League
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in Belgian Super Cup
  3. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  4. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  5. ↑ 2 appearances in UEFA Champions League, 2 appearances in UEFA Europa League and 6 appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

Honours

Slovan Bratislava

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References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013 List of Players: Nigeria" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 23 June 2013. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Prichádza posila so skúsenosťami z La Ligy". www.skslovan.com (in Slovak). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  3. ↑ The Nigeria U-20 national football team; West African Football, 27 May 2012
  4. ↑ Uche Agbo; Foetbal 247, 4 January 2012
  5. ↑ Ghanaian striker Amankwei set for Enyimba Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine ; MTN Football, 2 January 2012
  6. ↑ Enyimba triumphant again after 2–0 Dolphins win; Enyimba's official website, 28 April 2013
  7. ↑ Exclusive: Uche Agbo Begins Trials At Udinese; All Nigeria Soccer, 11 October 2013
  8. ↑ Exclusive: Uche Agbo Set To Sign Four-year Deal With Udinese; All Nigeria Soccer, 18 November 2013
  9. ↑ Success Isaac y Uche Agbo: nuevos jugadores del Granada CF (Success Isaac and Uche Agbo: new players of Granada CF) Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine ; Granada CF, 18 March 2014 (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ El Levante resurge de sus cenizas (Levante rises from its ashes); Marca, 23 February 2015 (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ Uche Agbo signs for Watford, yet is loaned to Granada immediately; Vavel, 25 July 2016
  12. ↑ "Uche Henry Agbo rejoint Les Rouches" (in French). Standard Liege. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  13. ↑ "Agbo Uche nuevo jugador del Rayo Vallecano" [Agbo Uche new player of Rayo Vallecano] (in Spanish). Rayo Vallecano. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  14. ↑ Okeleji, Oluwashina (12 February 2019). "Nigeria's Uche Agbo 'football more important than cash'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  15. ↑ "Uche Agbo, nuevo jugador del Deportivo 2019–2020" [Uche Agbo, new player of Deportivo 2019–2020] (in Spanish). Deportivo La Coruña. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  16. ↑ "Prichádza posila so skúsenosťami z La Ligy". www.skslovan.com (in Slovak). Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  17. ↑ "The young defender has been handed his first national team call-up to replace injured Leon Balogun ahead of October's World Cup qualifier against Chipolopolo". goal.com. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  18. ↑ Audu, Samm. "Super Eagles fly past Togo 3-0 | SCORE NIGERIA". scorenigeria.com.ng. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
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