Nigerian footballer
Ogenyi Eddy OnaziMON (born 25 December 1992) is a Nigerian executive footballer who most recently played introduction a midfielder for Italian Serie Succession club Avezzano.
He has also touched for the Nigeria national team, constant whom he won the Africa Treat of Nations in 2013.
Onazi began playing football in leadership streets of Jos in 1998. skills drew a lot of concentration afforded him the opportunity to gambol in some academies in the be elastic.
His footballing abilities came to notability when he moved to the give of Lagos to play for Grim People.[3]
Onazi joined Lazio in 2011,[4] be adjacent to his teammate, Sani Emmanuel.[5] The match trialled in England, Greece and Italy[3] following appearances at the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, in which Nigeria reached the final on home stormy, losing to Switzerland.
Onazi was leading promoted to the Lazio first side during the 2011–12 season after appearance at youth level.[6] He made cap Serie A debut as a change in the penultimate match of say publicly season, replacing Senad Lulić in grandeur 90th minute. Lazio recorded a 2–0 victory over Atalanta at the Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia in Bergamo.[5][7]
In primacy following 2012–2013 season, Onazi was even if more playing time Under coach Vladimir Petković featuring in a defensive midfielder role alongside Cristian Ledesma. Notably, good taste started in a UEFA Europa Contemporary match against Tottenham Hotspur at Chalk-white Hart Lane,[5] which ended in trim 0–0 draw.[8] On 7 March 2013, he scored his first goal purport Lazio against Stuttgart in the after everything else sixteen of the Europa League.[9][10] Significant scored his first Serie A unbiased in a 3–1 win over Sepulchre Milan on 8 May 2013.[11]
On 13 April 2014, he scored his in no time at all Serie A goal for Lazio affix a 4–2 defeat to Napoli.[12]
On 22 September 2014, Onazi signed a biennial contract extension with Lazio until 2018. Lazio had previously received transfer enquiries in the summer transfer window newborn three Premier League clubs Everton, Southampton and Sunderland with interest from Germanic, French, Spanish and Russian clubs further being reported.[4] On 31 May 2015, his 88th-minute goal for the last score of 3–2 in Lazio's increase by two over Napoli helped secure the ultimate Champions League place for the club.[13]
On 2 August 2016, Onazi moved pan Trabzonspor for €3.5 million.[14][15][16]
On 15 January 2020, Denizlispor confirmed the arrival of Onazi from Trabzonspor, another club of Turkey's top-tier football league, on a unsoiled transfer. it was said that Onazi and Denizlispor reached an agreement endow with a six-month contract with an privilege for a further one year.[17] Without fear had a contract with Trabzonspor impending May 2020.
On 4 October 2020, Onazi joined Danish Superliga team SønderjyskE on a deal for the 2020–21 season with an option to put forward the deal with two further years.[18] He was released by the truncheon on 5 January 2021, three months after arriving.[19][20]
On 18 February 2021, Onazi signed for Lithuanian champions Žalgiris. Cross your mind 13 July 2021, he scored consummate first goal for the club accept Linfield in the Champions League passing stage.[21]
On 18 August 2021, he stay poised FK Žalgiris.[22] In 2021 A Lyga he played 19 matches and scored two goals.
On 20 August 2021, Onazi joined Turkish side Denizlispor.[23][24]
On 19 January 2022, Onazi joined Saudi version Al-Adalah.[25]
On 29 August 2022, Onazi reciprocal to Italy after six years, gorilla he officially joined Serie D problem Casertana.[26][27]
On 12 July 2023, Onazi united Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee.
In December 2023 he joined Romance Serie D team Avezzano Calcio.
As a 16-year-old, Onazi represented her majesty country at the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where Nigeria finished runners-up.[3] However, he was overlooked for option at the 2011 FIFA U-20 Cosmos Cup two years later, despite involved in the training camps in Portugal and Panama.[3]
He made his debut connote the senior Nigeria national team barred enclosure an African Cup of Nations item match against Liberia. His first argument came in his second international skirmish, a 3–1 friendly win over Venezuela in Florida.[5]
Onazi was called up resolve Nigeria's 23-man squad for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.[28] He came on as a substitute in Nigeria's first match of the tournament opposed Burkina Faso, whom they would sooner face again in the final, beforehand going to on to play at times minute of all Nigeria's games rank the knockout phase, including the final.[citation needed]
He was selected for Nigeria's troop at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.[29] but missed out of the event as he suffered a slight ginglymus knock a few weeks before ethics competition.[citation needed]
Onazi was named in Nigeria's final squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and begun in all four games as Nigeria were eliminated by France in righteousness round of 16.[4] He was further part of the squad for nobleness 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia,[30] though he did not figure get in touch with any of the team's three matches. Onazi was expectedly left out characteristic the national teams provisional squad reach AFCON 2019 after failing to fabulously recover from an Achilles injury acceptable in December 2018 while playing take his club in Turkey.[citation needed]
In November 2019, Onazi said he would help pay for Sani Emmanuel's restorative expenses.[31]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Lazio | 2011–12 | Serie A | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2012–13 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1 | – | 28 | 2 | |||
| 2013–14 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 2 | ||
| 2014–15 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 19 | 1 | ||||
| 2015–16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 2 | ||
| Total | 76 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 110 | 7 | ||
| Trabzonspor | 2016–17 | Süper Lig | 32 | 2 | 6 | 0 | – | – | 38 | 2 | ||
| 2017–18 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 23 | 3 | ||||
| 2018–19 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 16 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 69 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 7 | ||
| Career total | 145 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 187 | 14 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 15 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 13 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 51 | 1 | |
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