Peter Osase Odemwingie is a footballer with Russian-Nigerian roots who was born in Tashkent in 1981. This article provides a brief overview of his career.
Early career
Despite the fact that Peter Odemwingie was born in Tashkent, since 1993 the family lived in Naberezhnye Chelny, where the guy became a football player.
Until the age of fifteen, he studied at the KAMAZ sports school under the guidance of coach Viktor Borisov. In 1995 he moved to CSKA. However, this team could not consider the prospect in the athlete, so Peter did not even play for the double.
Then his father decided to send him to Nigeria, of which Peter was a citizen. This decision turned out to be the key, because the player gained experience in playing there.
Peter Odemwingie spent three great seasons at Bendal Insurance Club. The result of this work was his transfer to a Belgian club, with which the football player won the cup of this country.
Lille, Lokomotiv and other clubs
In 2005, Odemwingie signed a contract with Lille from France.
In this team, he spent several seasons and was able to become the top scorer in the championship. In addition, it was in France that he fully revealed himself as a player and began to be of the greatest value to rival clubs.
In 2007, Peter could become a Spartak player, but this did not happen. However, he still returned to Russia.
On July 19, a contract was signed between Peter and the Moscow club . As part of the “Locomotive”, the young man performed under the ninth number and spent three seasons there. However, if at first he showed a great game, then 2010 was a failure for him.
The football player was glad to leave the club, explaining this by the fact that he was constantly pressured, including fans.
In 2010, he became a West Brom player. According to the results of only one month spent there, he became the best football player with two goals and assists. He also became a club record holder for the number of goals scored in a season, and thanks to his work on West Bromwich, he was able to beat Arsenal.
Peter Odemwingie spent two years on this team. Since 2013 he has been a Cardiff City player. Now - forward, “Stoke City” in England.
International career
Peter Odemwingie is the footballer of the Nigeria national team. Several times he played in the African Cup of Nations, and quite successfully. In 2008, in the same tournament, he played in all matches, but could not score a single goal.
But Peter can boast of participating in the Olympic Games, for which the Nigeria national team made it in 2008. There he spent six matches and scored once, scoring a goal. It was a triumphal performance, as the team and Odemwingie with it became the silver medalists of the games.
In 2010, at the Nations Cup he again brought his team to the playoffs, scoring a decisive goal for Mozambique.
In 2009, in Nigeria, Odemwingie Peter, soccer for whom is not just work, was named the best player in this country.
A family
Father Odemwingie, also Peter, after graduating from school in Nigeria, moved to Moscow, where he studied Russian. But I went to Tashkent to enter a medical institute. There, in his second year, he met a student of Paradise, a native of Naberezhnye Chelny, who also studied as a physician. They fell in love and got married some time later. In 1979, the elder sister of Peter Alsou was born, in 1981 - he himself.
After graduation, the family moved to Benin City in Nigeria. Peter was one year old.
And when the time came for the children to go to school, my mother insisted on moving to the USSR. Initially, they lived in Tashkent, but after the collapse of the country they moved to Naberezhnye Chelny. Since then, the football player has lived in several countries: either in Nigeria, where his father’s relatives are, or in Russia in his mother’s homeland, but he spends most of his time in England, where he actually works.
There, in 2012, Peter Odemwingie married with his long-time lover Sarah Fallon.