Adebayo Akinfenwa
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| Adebayo Akinfenwa | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adebayo Akinfenwa | |
| Date of birth | 10 May 1982 | |
| Place of birth | London, England, United Kingdom | |
| Height | 5'11" (180 cm) | |
| Position | Forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Swansea City | |
| Number | 9 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1998 - 2001 | Watford | |
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| 2001 - 2003 2003 - 2003 2003 - 2003 2003 - 2003 2003 - 2004 2004 - 2004 2004 - 2005 2005 - present |
FK Atlantas Barry Town Boston United Leyton Orient Rushden and Diamonds Doncaster Rovers Torquay United Swansea City |
n/a 9 (6) 3 (0) 1 (0) 0 (0) 9 (4) 37 (14) 48 (9) |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Adebayo Akinfenwa (born 10 May 1982 in London, England) is a professional footballer, currently playing for Swansea City in League One. He is a large and imposing forward with a sometimes physical style.
Due to his parentage, Akinfenwa is eligible to play for either Nigeria or England although he has made no international appearances.
As a teenager, Akinfenwa joined the Lithuanian club FK Atlantas on the advice of his agent, whose Lithuanian wife's brother knew a member of the coaching staff there[2]. He spent two years at the club before returning to the UK early in 2003, where he joined all-conquering Welsh Premier League champions Barry Town. After playing only a handful of games, however, the club collapsed due to financial problems: Akinfenwa and its professionals were released from their contracts.
Akinfenwa quickly found another club and joined Boston United in October 2003. Unable to settle, he moved to Leyton Orient the following month and to Rushden and Diamonds in December. By February 2004, Akinfenwa had joined Doncaster Rovers, his fifth club of the season.
That summer, Akinfenwa changed clubs again, signing for Torquay United in July 2004. He scored 14 League goals during the 2004/05 season but was unable to help the club avoid relegation to League Two.
In July 2005, Akinfenwa moved to Swansea City, with Swansea ordered to pay £100,000 in compensation to Torquay. He scored the winning goal in the 2006 Football League Trophy final, in which Swansea beat Carlisle United 2-1.
Akinfenwa also helped Swansea reach the League One promotion play-off final in his first season. After a 2-2 draw, the match went to a penalty shoot-out but Akinfenwa was one of two Swansea players to miss with their penalties, granting promotion to Barnsley.
To the end of the 2005/06 season, Akinfenwa had played 35 times for Swansea City in all competitions (with a further nine appearances as a substitute) and had scored 15 goals.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Soccerbase: Adebayo Akinfenwa. Soccerbase. Retrieved on 12 December 2006.
- ^ Akinfenwa out to play 'large' role for Swans. icWales.co.uk. Retrieved on 2 July 2006.
| Swansea City A.F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Guéret | 2 Amankwaah | 3 Austin | 4 O'Leary | 5 Tate | 6 Iriekpen | 7 Britton | 8 Pratley | 9 Akinfenwa | 10 Trundle | 11 Fallon | 12 Watt | 14 Painter | 15 Williams | 16 Monk | 17 Tudur-Jones | 18 Robinson | 19 Way | 20 MacDonald | 21 Jones | 22 Lawrence | 24 Knight | 26 Oakes | 28 Butler | new Craney | Manager: Jackett |
