Ikechukwu Vincent Ezenwa (born 16 October 1988) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.

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Ikechukwu Ezenwa

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Full name	Ikechukwu Vincent Ezenwa[1]
Date of birth	(1988-10-16) 16 October 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth	Yenagoa, Nigeria
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2008	Ocean Boys F.C.	56	(0)
2008–2011	Heartland F.C.	61	(0)
2011–2014	Sharks F.C.	45	(0)
2014–2016	Sunshine Stars F.C.	38	(0)
2016–2017	Ifeanyi Ubah F.C.	28	(0)
2017–2019	Enyimba International F.C.	4	(0)
2019	Heartland F.C.	0	(0)
2019–2023	Katsina United F.C.	11	(0)
International career‡
2007	Nigeria U-20	3	(0)
2008	Nigeria U-23	1	(0)
2015–2019	Nigeria	21	(0)
Medal record Representing  Nigeria Men's football Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team Africa Cup of Nations 2019 Egypt
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 November 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 June 2019

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Ezenwa began his football professional career with Ocean Boys before moved to Heartland FC in July 2008.^[2] He moved to Ifeanyi Ubah FC in 2016.^[3] Contract End in 2017. He has then completed a move to Enyimba^[4] . Contract End in 2018. He moved on to join Katsina United on 1 January 2019.^[5] One of his respected goalkeeper trainer who impacted greatly to his career is former Sunshine Stars Coach, Daramola Nicholas Akinsehinwa between the year 2013 to 2016 during his playing time with Sunshine Stars F.C. and this great development to his potentials made the Nigeria Super Eagles call-up possible by which Ikechukwu Ezenwa was part of the Nigeria squad at the 2014 World Cup.

He was a member of the Nigeria U-23 at the 2008 Summer Olympics, featuring in the qualifier games. He got the call up to the Nigeria Super Eagles in 2015 under the authority of Coach Sunday Oliseh. Following the injury of Nigeria's first choice goalkeeper Carl Ikeme he was called up to be part of the squad in the World cup and Nations cup qualifications by Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr and given the number 1 jersey replacing Ikeme as first choice goalkeeper of the Super Eagles.

Ezenwa showed some class of keeping during Nigeria's back to back matches against the ‘indomitable lions’ of Cameroon in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In May 2018, he was named in Nigeria's preliminary 30 man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.^[6]