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Samuel Eduok

Samuel Eduok

Nigerian association football player

Samuel Emem Eduok (born 31 January 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker for Croatian club Hajduk Split.[2][3]

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Club career

Born in Itu,[1] Eduok played for Dolphins and Akwa United,[4] and was the second-top scorer in the 2014 Nigeria Premier League with 20 goals.[5] In December 2014 he signed a contract with Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08; after changing his mind he signed a second contract with Tunisian club Espérance in January 2015, resulting in a transfer row.[5] He completed the transfer to Espérance later that month.[6]

He moved initially on loan to Turkish club Kasımpaşa in August 2016.[7] The loan deal became permanent at the end of the 2016–17 season.[1]

In January 2019 he signed for BB Erzurumspor.[8] He left the club at the end of the season.

On 19 July 2019 Eduok signed for Croatian First Football League club HNK Hajduk Split. He signed a 3-year contract and was given the number 11 shirt.[9] Eduok scored on debut for Hajduk, coming off the bench and netting the 3rd goal in a 3–0 win over NK Varaždin at Stadion Varteks.[10]

In August 2020 he signed for Turkish club Konyaspor on loan.[11]

International career

Eduok has played for the Nigeria under-20s,[1][5] and played at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[12]

On Friday, 7 November 2014, he scored the first professional goal at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, via a 35th-minute header off Solomon Kwambe's assist, as the home-based Super Eagles beat Ghana U23 team 1–0, in an unofficial international friendly held to commission the sports complex.[13][14][15]

He had to pull out of the senior national team in January 2015 due to his ongoing club transfer row.[5]

He made his senior debut as a 69th-minute substitute in the 2017 Cup of Nations qualifier at Tanzania.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Samuel Eduok at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Hajduk i službeno predstavio novo pojačanje! Eduok potpisao na tri godine". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Nigerijac Samuel Eduok novi napadač Hajduka". NACIONAL.HR (in Croatian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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    "Samuel Eduok". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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    Oluwashina Okeleji (8 January 2015). "Nigerian striker Emem Eduok makes plea to join Esperance". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  6. [6]
    Shina Oludare (22 January 2015). "Tunisian giants Esperance unveil Emem Eduok". Goal.com. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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    SAMUEL EDUOK KASIMPAŞA'DA‚ milliyet.com.tr, 29 August 2016
  8. [8]
    "Eduok Erzurumspor'da". CNN Türk.
  9. [9]
    "Hajduk i službeno predstavio novo pojačanje! Eduok potpisao na tri godine". Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  10. [10]
    "Varaždin – Hajduk 0:3 – Hrvatski Telekom Prva liga". prvahnl.hr. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  11. [11]
    "Nigerijac Samuel Eduok posuđen u Konyaspor, Hajduk se barem privremeno riješio najskupljeg igrača". Novi list. 26 August 2020.
  12. [12]
    Samuel Eduok – FIFA competition record (archived)
  13. [13]
    "Nigeria 1–0 Ghana: Eduok's header wins Uyo stadium opener for Super Eagles". Goal.com. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  14. [14]
    "Nigeria opens new stadium with Ghana friendly". Confederation of African Football. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  15. [15]
    "Eduok Hands Super Eagles Narrow Victory Over Ghana". Soccer Laduma. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015.


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