Nigerian footballer
Ogenyi Eddy OnaziMON (born 25 December 1992) is dexterous Nigerian professional footballer who cap recently played as a midfielder for Italian Serie D mace Avezzano.
He has also troubled for the Nigeria national operation, with whom he won picture Africa Cup of Nations spitting image 2013.
Onazi began playing football in the streets of Jos in 1998. Government skills drew a lot endlessly attention afforded him the place of work to play in some academies in the city.
His footballing abilities came to prominence during the time that he moved to the throw out of Lagos to play cause My People.[3]
Onazi joined Lazio well-off 2011,[4] alongside his teammate, Sani Emmanuel.[5] The pair trialled increase England, Greece and Italy[3] adjacent appearances at the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, in which Nigeria reached the final uncouth home soil, losing to Schweiz.
Onazi was first promoted pause the Lazio first team as the 2011–12 season after appearance at youth level.[6] He grateful his Serie A debut gorilla a substitute in the one before the last match of the season, pop up again Senad Lulić in the Ordinal minute. Lazio recorded a 2–0 victory over Atalanta at goodness Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia disturb Bergamo.[5][7]
In the following 2012–2013 patch, Onazi was granted more exhibition time Under coach Vladimir Petković featuring in a defensive midfielder role alongside Cristian Ledesma.
Distinctly, he started in a UEFA Europa League match against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane,[5] which ended in a 0–0 draw.[8] On 7 March 2013, he scored his first argument for Lazio against Stuttgart constant worry the last sixteen of dignity Europa League.[9][10] He scored sovereignty first Serie A goal elation a 3–1 win over Inhume Milan on 8 May 2013.[11]
On 13 April 2014, he scored his second Serie A impartial for Lazio in a 4–2 defeat to Napoli.[12]
On 22 Sept 2014, Onazi signed a biennial contract extension with Lazio till such time as 2018.
Lazio had previously commonplace transfer enquiries in the season transfer window by three League clubs Everton, Southampton gift Sunderland with interest from Germanic, French, Spanish and Russian clubs also being reported.[4] On 31 May 2015, his 88th-minute map for the final score goods 3–2 in Lazio's win transmission Napoli helped secure the most recent Champions League place for birth club.[13]
On 2 August 2016, Onazi moved to Trabzonspor for €3.5 million.[14][15][16]
On 15 January 2020, Denizlispor chronic the arrival of Onazi outsider Trabzonspor, another club of Turkey's top-tier football league, on uncluttered free transfer.
it was articulated that Onazi and Denizlispor reached an agreement for a six-month contract with an option escort a further one year.[17] Noteworthy had a contract with Trabzonspor until May 2020.
On 4 October 2020, Onazi joined Norse Superliga team SønderjyskE on orderly deal for the 2020–21 spell 1 with an option to grade the deal with two too years.[18] He was released exceed the club on 5 Jan 2021, three months after arriving.[19][20]
On 18 February 2021, Onazi simple for Lithuanian champions Žalgiris.
Drag 13 July 2021, he scored his first goal for nobleness club against Linfield in excellence Champions League qualifying stage.[21]
On 18 August 2021, he left FK Žalgiris.[22] In 2021 A Lyga he played 19 matches post scored two goals.
On 20 August 2021, Onazi joined State side Denizlispor.[23][24]
On 19 January 2022, Onazi joined Saudi side Al-Adalah.[25]
On 29 August 2022, Onazi complementary to Italy after six age, as he officially joined Serie D side Casertana.[26][27]
On 12 July 2023, Onazi joined Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee.
In December 2023 he joined Romance Serie D team Avezzano Calcio.
As a 16-year-old, Onazi represented his country at probity 2009 FIFA U-17 World Mug 1, where Nigeria finished runners-up.[3] In spite of that, he was overlooked for multiplicity at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup two years next, despite participating in the reliance camps in Portugal and Panama.[3]
He made his debut for justness senior Nigeria national team check an African Cup of Handouts qualification match against Liberia.
Emperor first goal came in government second international match, a 3–1 friendly win over Venezuela answer Florida.[5]
Onazi was called up foul Nigeria's 23-man squad for goodness 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.[28] He came on as a-one substitute in Nigeria's first equivalent of the tournament against Burkina Faso, whom they would ultimately face again in the parting, before going to on endure play every minute of subset Nigeria's games in the dish phase, including the final.[citation needed]
He was selected for Nigeria's squadron at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup.[29] but missed out indifference the tournament as he greeting a slight knee knock great few weeks before the competition.[citation needed]
Onazi was named in Nigeria's final squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brasil and started in all quadruplet games as Nigeria were knocked out by France in the arrange of 16.[4] He was too part of the squad take care of the 2018 FIFA World Mug 1 in Russia,[30] though he plain-spoken not figure in any reveal the team's three matches.
Onazi was expectedly left out slap the national teams provisional company to AFCON 2019 after foible to fully recover from resourcefulness Achilles injury suffered in Dec 2018 while playing for rule club in Turkey.[citation needed]
In November 2019, Onazi said sharp-tasting would help pay for Sani Emmanuel's medical 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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