Emmanuel Amuneke
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| Full name | Emmanuel Amunike | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 December 1970 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Eze Obodo, Nigeria | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Winger | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Nigeria U17 (coach) | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1990 | Concord | |||||||||||
| 1991 | Julius Berger | |||||||||||
| 1991–1994 | Zamalek | 71 | (26) | |||||||||
| 1994–1996 | Sporting CP | 51 | (17) | |||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Barcelona | 19 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Albacete | 17 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Busan I'Cons | |||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Al-Wahdat | 22 | (0) | |||||||||
| Total | 180 | (45) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1993–2001 | Nigeria | 27 | (9) | |||||||||
| Teams managed | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Al Hazm (assistant) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Julius Berger | |||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Ocean Boys | |||||||||||
| 2014– | Nigeria U17 | |||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Emmanuel Amunike (often misspelled Amuneke; born 25 December 1970 in Eze Obodo) is a Nigerian retired footballer who played as a left winger, and a current coach.
His professional career was blighted by injury. He represented Nigeria at the 1994 World Cup.
In his early career, Amunike won the domestic league titles in Nigeria and Egypt, while playing for Julius Berger F.C. and Zamalek SC respectively. In 1994 he signed for Sporting Clube de Portugal, scoring seven league goals in his first season, including one against S.L. Benfica in the Lisbon derby (1–0 home win on 1 December 1994), and adding the campaign's Portuguese Cup.
In the 1996 December transfer window, Amunike was bought by La Liga giants FC Barcelona for $3.6 million, making his official debut on the 22nd in a 1–0 home win against Celta de Vigo and scoring on 16 March of the following year in a 1–0 success at CD Logroñés. His spell in Catalonia would be effectively ended in the 1997 off-season after he suffered a serious knee injury, following which he appeared very rarely for the club (only three league games in three full seasons combined).
Amunike never fully recovered from his condition after being released by Barça in 2000, playing for Albacete Balompié (also Spain, Segunda División), Busan I'Cons (South Korea, only a couple of months) and Al-Wahdat SC (Amman) (Jordan), retiring from football at the age of 33. In 2008 he spent some time as an assistant coach at Saudi Premier League side Al-Hazm, but left to become a scout for Manchester United.
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