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Obafemi Martins is a Nigerian professional soccer player who has played for various clubs throughout his career. He is notable as a prominent athlete from Nigeria in international football.
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- 1984-10-28
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5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,380x
- Efficient pseudopotentials for plane-wave calculations
· 1991 · cited 15,080x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
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Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins (/ˌoʊbəˈfɛmi/ oh-buh-FEH-mee /ˌɑːkɪnˈwʊnmi/ ah-kin-WOON-mee /ˈmɑːrtɪns/ MAR-tinz; born 28 October 1984) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
After leaving Nigeria for Italy at age 16, he played for a number of top-division clubs around Europe. He began his senior career in 2002 at Serie A club Inter Milan, before he moved to Premier League club Newcastle United in 2006, and then to Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg in 2009. Having joined Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan in 2010, they loaned him to Birmingham City in 2011. He spent a season with La Liga club Levante, he played for Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer from 2013 to 2015, before spending several years in the Chinese Super League with Shanghai Shenhua and Wuhan.
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1984 births2006 Africa Cup of Nations players2008 Africa Cup of Nations players2010 Africa Cup of Nations players2010 FIFA World Cup players21st-century Nigerian sportsmenAC Reggiana 1919 playersAge controversiesBirmingham City F.C. playersBundesliga playersChinese Super League playersDesignated Players (MLS)