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Yakubu

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Also known as Yakubu Ayegbeni

Nigerian association football player (born 1982)

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  • Hon. Justice A.G.O. Agbaje and his contribution to Nigerian legal development through his cases
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Total plays
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Key facts

1998
→ Gil Vicente (loan)
2003
→ Portsmouth (loan)
2011
→ Leicester City (loan)
2015
Reading
2017
Coventry City
Full name
Yakubu Ayegbeni
Date of birth
( 1982-11-22 ) 22 November 1982 (age 43)
Place of birth
Benin City , Nigeria
Height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position
Striker
1994 1997
Gateway
Years
Team
1998 1999
Julius Berger
1999 2003
Maccabi Haifa
1999 2000
→ Hapoel Kfar Saba (loan)
2003 2005
Portsmouth
2005 2007
Middlesbrough
2007 2011
Everton

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Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
_Retired Soccer
Position
Forward
Nationality
Nigeria

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Encyclopedic overview

Yakubu Ayegbeni Listen (born 22 November 1982), known mononymously as Yakubu, is a Nigerian football agent and former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is nicknamed "The Yak".

His performances in the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League for Maccabi Haifa earned a loan move to English club Portsmouth which became permanent as they were promoted to the Premier League in 2003. He has since appeared in over 250 Premier League matches for Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, and Blackburn Rovers, and is the fourth highest African goalscorer in Premier League history with 96 goals. He is the fourth highest scorer in the history of the Nigeria national football team, and represented them at four African Cup of Nations finals, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yakubu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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