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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Forward
- Nationality
- Nigeria
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Benin City
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- 2010 Africa Cup of Nations
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Nigeria men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Nigeria
- Mass
- 90
- Image
- Yakubu in 2013 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 183
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- Yakubu Aiyegbeni
- date of birth
- 1982-11-22
- birth name
- Yakubu Ayegbeni
- name in native language
- Yakubu
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
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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.