| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Emem Eduok [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 31 January 1994 [1] | ||
| Place of birth | Itu, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) [1] | ||
| Position(s) | Winger, striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
| 2011–2014 | Dolphins | ||
| 2013 | → Akwa United (loan) | ||
| 2015–2017 | Espérance | 24 | (7) |
| 2016–2017 | → Kasımpaşa (loan) | 29 | (4) |
| 2017–2019 | Kasımpaşa | 78 | (19) |
| 2019 | BB Erzurumspor | 15 | (4) |
| 2019–2023 | Hajduk Split | 34 | (12) |
| 2020 | → Konyaspor (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Nigeria U20 | |||
| 2015– | Nigeria | 1 | (0) |
|
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:54, 29 January 2019 (UTC) | |||
Samuel Emem Eduok (born 31 January 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker. [2] [3]
Club career
Born in Itu, [1] Eduok played for Dolphins and Akwa United, [4] and was the second-top scorer in the 2014 Nigeria Premier League with 20 goals. [5] In December 2014 he signed a contract with Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08; after changing his mind he signed a second contract with Tunisian club Espérance in January 2015, resulting in a transfer row. [5] He completed the transfer to Espérance later that month. [6]
He moved initially on loan to Turkish club Kasımpaşa in August 2016. [7] The loan deal became permanent at the end of the 2016–17 season. [1]
In January 2019 he signed for BB Erzurumspor. [8] He left the club at the end of the season.
On 19 July 2019 Eduok signed for Croatian First Football League club HNK Hajduk Split. He signed a 3-year contract and was given the number 11 shirt. [9] Eduok scored on debut for Hajduk, coming off the bench and netting the 3rd goal in a 3–0 win over NK Varaždin at Stadion Varteks. [10]
In August 2020 he signed for Turkish club Konyaspor on loan. [11]
International career
Eduok has played for the Nigeria under-20s, [1] [5] and played at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup. [12]
On Friday, 7 November 2014, he scored the first professional goal at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, via a 35th-minute header off Solomon Kwambe's assist, as the home-based Super Eagles beat Ghana U23 team 1–0, in an unofficial international friendly held to commission the sports complex. [13] [14] [15]
He had to pull out of the senior national team in January 2015 due to his ongoing club transfer row. [5]
He made his senior debut as a 69th-minute substitute in the 2017 Cup of Nations qualifier at Tanzania. [4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Samuel Eduok at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Hajduk i službeno predstavio novo pojačanje! Eduok potpisao na tri godine". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ "Nigerijac Samuel Eduok novi napadač Hajduka". NACIONAL.HR (in Croatian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ a b "Samuel Eduok". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d Oluwashina Okeleji (8 January 2015). "Nigerian striker Emem Eduok makes plea to join Esperance". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ Shina Oludare (22 January 2015). "Tunisian giants Esperance unveil Emem Eduok". Goal.com. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ SAMUEL EDUOK KASIMPAŞA'DA‚ milliyet.com.tr, 29 August 2016
- ^ "Eduok Erzurumspor'da". CNN Türk.
- ^ "Hajduk i službeno predstavio novo pojačanje! Eduok potpisao na tri godine". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ "Varaždin – Hajduk 0:3 – Hrvatski Telekom Prva liga". prvahnl.hr. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ "Nigerijac Samuel Eduok posuđen u Konyaspor, Hajduk se barem privremeno riješio najskupljeg igrača". Novi list. 26 August 2020.
- ^ Samuel Eduok – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ "Nigeria 1–0 Ghana: Eduok's header wins Uyo stadium opener for Super Eagles". Goal.com. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ "Nigeria opens new stadium with Ghana friendly". Confederation of African Football. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ^ "Eduok Hands Super Eagles Narrow Victory Over Ghana". Soccer Laduma. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
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