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Key facts
- 2014
- Switzerland U20
- 2017
- Switzerland
- 2022
- Manchester City
- 2025
- → Inter Milan (loan)
- Full name
- Manuel Obafemi Akanji
- Date of birth
- ( 1995-07-19 ) 19 July 1995 (age 30)
- Place of birth
- Neftenbach , Switzerland
- Height
- 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Position
- Defender
- Current team
- Inter Milan , (on loan from Manchester City )
- 2004 2007
- FC Wiesendangen
- 2007 2013
- FC Winterthur
- Years
- Team
- 2013 2014
- FC Winterthur II
- 2014 2015
- FC Winterthur
- 2015 2016
- FC Basel II
- 2015 2018
- FC Basel
- 2018 2022
- Borussia Dortmund
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Inter Milan
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Switzerland
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Neftenbach
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Participant in
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Inter Milan
- Position played
- defender
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Switzerland
- Mass
- 85
- Image
- Ser-Swi (34) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 187
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- date of birth
- 1995-07-19
- sport number
- 25
- Commons category
- Manuel Akanji
- start of work period
- 2014-04-26
- birth name
- Manuel Obafemi Akanji
- name in native language
- Manuel Akanji
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Encyclopedic overview
Manuel Obafemi Akanji listen ( Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈmaː.nu.ɛl aˈkan.dʒi]; born 19 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Inter Milan, on loan from Premier League club Manchester City, and the Switzerland national team.
An academy graduate of FC Winterthur, Akanji's professional career began in 2014, when he made his debut for the then-Swiss Challenge League club, having also previously played for the club's second team. He moved to first tier FC Basel in 2015, where he won consecutive league titles in 2015–16 and 2016–17, the latter of which was a double that included the 2016–17 Swiss Cup. Following his success with Basel, Akanji was sold to Borussia Dortmund during the winter transfer window of 2018. During his stay in the Bundesliga, he helped Dortmund win the 2019 DFL-Supercup and the 2020–21 DFB-Pokal. He joined Manchester City in 2022, winning a continental treble in his first season with the club, as well as numerous other trophies, including one more Premier League title in 2023–24.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manuel Akanji” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.