Isah Eliakwu

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Personal information
Isah Eliakwu
Full name	Isah Abdulahi Eliakwu
Date of birth	25 October 1985
Place of birth	Lokoja, Nigeria
Height	1.75 m
Position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Triestina (co-ownership with Internazionale)
Youth clubs
2002-2004	Reggiana Internazionale
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2004-2005 2005-	Ascoli (loan) Triestina (co-ownership)	? (?) ? (?)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Isah Abdulahi Eliakwu (born 25 October 1985 in Lokoja), is another promising Nigerian talent besides Obafemi Martins. Product of Inter Youth team and currently playing at Triestina, in Serie B doubtfulness one of the exciting talents in Nigerian football.

A striker that is relatively short but quick, often mentioned to be quicker than Obafemi Martins.

[edit] Football career

Internazionale
2002-03: Eliakwu moves to Inter Primavera team with Obafemi after a dominating perfomance in Reggiana youth Team.

2003-04: In the first 19 games of this season, he scored a fantastic 19 goals (10 in the Italian Cup for youth, 9 in the youth League) and made his debut with the first team in the Coppa Italia against Udinese Calcio, January 13.

He was loaned to Serie A side Parma in January 2004, involving Adriano Leite Ribeiro going to another direction. However, the Parma coaches decided to allow Eliakwu to remain with Inter until June 2004.

2004-05: Eliakwu was loaned to Serie B side Ascoli, he played 25 times but without scoring goals.

Triestina
2005-06: In late August 2005 he was transferred on loan to Serie B side Triestina, but in the first part of the season he rarily played, because of a injuries. In February the best forward of Triestina Denis Godeas moved to U.S. Città di Palermo and the forwards Alessandro Tulli and Francesco Ciullo were injured, so Eliakwu play regularly till the end of the season, frequently with the forward-partner Massimo Borgobello, and became an idol of Triestina's supporters. Totally he scores 8 goals in 16 matches and has been prized by a club of supporters as the best player of the season.

2006-07: In summer 2006 the new owner of the team, Stefano Fantinel confirm him in the rooster of the team, by purchase half of the rights from Inter. He played 3 times in Coppa Italia against Sanremese,a team of Serie C2,the 4th league in Italy,Siena and Atalanta, teams belonging to Serie A.Triestina wons all the matches and Eliakwu scores 1 goal for each match, in the next turn of Coppa Italia Triestina will play against the famous A.S. Roma.