Personal information | |||
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Full name | Brian Oladapo Idowu [1] | ||
Date of birth | 18 May 1992 | ||
Place of birth | Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
1999– | Smena-Zenit | ||
–2010 | Zenit St. Petersburg | ||
2010–2015 | Amkar Perm | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2012–2018 | Amkar Perm | 87 | (1) |
2013–2014 | → Dynamo St. Petersburg (loan) | 25 | (1) |
2018–2021 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 25 | (0) |
2020–2021 | → Khimki (loan) | 28 | (3) |
2021–2023 | Khimki | 41 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2017–2018 | Nigeria | 10 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 April 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 November 2018 |
Brian Oladapo Idowu ( Russian: Брайан Оладапо Идову; born 18 May 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back. Born in Russia, he plays for the Nigeria national team.
Born in Saint Petersburg to a Nigerian father and a Russian- Nigerian mother, Idowu moved to Owerri, Nigeria at early age, and later moved back to Russia.
He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Amkar Perm on 6 May 2012 in a game against FC Terek Grozny. [2]
After a loan spell with Dynamo St Petersburg during the 2013–14 season, Idowu signed a new 3-year deal with Amkar on 30 June 2014, [3] extending his contract again in February 2017 until the summer of 2020. [4]
On 10 July 2018, he signed a 3-year contract with FC Lokomotiv Moscow. [5]
On 7 August 2020, he joined Khimki on loan for the 2020–21 season. [6]
On 7 June 2021, he moved to Khimki on a permanent basis, signing a 2-year contract with an additional 1-year extension option. [7] He left Khimki in July 2023. [8]
In November 2017, Idowu was called up to the Nigerian national team for their friendly against Argentina in Krasnodar on 14 November 2017. [9] Idowu made his debut against Argentina on 14 November, coming on as a half-time substitute for Ola Aina, and scoring Nigeria's third goal in a 4-2 win. [10]
In May 2018 he was named in Nigeria's preliminary 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [11]
Idowu's father is Nigerian and his mother is half-Russian, half-Nigerian. He was born and raised in St. Petersburg, except for a period when he was aged 3 to 6 when he lived in Owerri, Nigeria. [12] Idowu speaks perfect Russian and acted as a makeshift translator of the Nigerian national team at news conference ahead of a fixture in Krasnodar in November 2017. [13]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Amkar Perm | 2011–12 | RPL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
2012–13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
2013–14 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||||
2014–15 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 0 | ||||
2015–16 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 25 | 1 | ||||
2016–17 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 1 | ||||
2017–18 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 1 | – | 2 [a] | 0 | 32 | 1 | |||
Total | 87 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 99 | 3 | ||
Dynamo St. Petersburg (loan) | 2013–14 | FNL | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 1 | ||
Lokomotiv Moscow | 2018–19 | RPL | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 [b] | 0 | 1 [c] | 0 | 20 | 0 |
2019–20 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 [b] | 0 | 1 [c] | 0 | 18 | 0 | ||
Total | 25 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 0 | ||
Khimki | 2020–21 | RPL | 28 | 3 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 3 | ||
2021–22 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 [a] | 0 | 28 | 0 | |||
2022–23 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 16 | 0 | ||||
Total | 64 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 74 | 3 | ||
Career total | 201 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 237 | 7 |
Nigeria | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2017 | 1 | 1 |
2018 | 9 | 0 |
Total | 10 | 1 |
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref |
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1. | 14 November 2017 | Krasnodar Stadium, Krasnodar, Russia | Argentina | 3–2 |
4–2 |
Friendly | [10] |