Isah Eliakwu

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Personal information
Isah Eliakwu
Full name	Isah Abdulahi Eliakwu
Date of birth	October 25, 1985 (age 21)
Place of birth	Lokoja, Nigeria
Height	1.75 m
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Triestina (co-ownership with Internazionale)
Youth clubs
2002-2004	Reggiana Internazionale
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004-2005 2005-	Ascoli (loan) Triestina (co-ownership)	? (?) ? (?)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

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

A striker that is relatively short but quick, often mentioned to be quicker than Obafemi Martins.^{[citation needed]}

[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 on January 13. He was loaned to Serie A side Parma in January 2004, a deal involving Brazillian striker Adriano going in the other 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 rarely played due to a series of injuries. In February, the leading Triestina forward, Denis Godeas, moved to Palermo and the other forwards, Alessandro Tulli and Francesco Ciullo, were injured. This gave Eliakwu an opportunity to play regularly for the first team till the end of the season and become a firm fans' favourite. By the end of the season he had scored 8 goals in 16 games and was voted best player of the season by the club's fan club.

2006-07: In summer 2006 the new owner of the team, Stefano Fantinel confirmed he will be on the team roster since half of the player's rights were purchased from Inter. He's played three times in the Coppa Italia this season and scored a goal in each of the games (two of them were against Serie A sides) and helped Triestina go on and win them.