Kelvin Etuhu

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Kelvin Etuhu
Personal information
Full name Kelvin Etuhu
Date of birth May 30, 1988 (1988-05-30) (age 20)
Place of birth    Kano, Nigeria
Playing position Right Winger/Forward
Club information
Current club Manchester City
Number 37
Youth clubs
Manchester City
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2006-
2007
2008
Manchester City
Rochdale (loan)
Leicester City (loan)
3 0(1)
4 0(2)
3 0(0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 17:49, 15 March 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Kelvin Etuhu (born May 30, 1988 in Nigeria) is a footballer currently at Manchester City, his parent club. He has previously had a loan spells at Rochdale & Leicester City.

Kelvin plays as a forward and after scoring the wining goal in the semi's against rivals Manchester United, he went on to play in the FA Youth Cup finals in 2005/06 where Manchester City lost to Liverpool on a 3-2 aggregate. He scored the equaliser in his debut for Rochdale, coming on in the 56th minute against Wycombe and scoring in the 80th minute.His spell at Rochdale was unfortunately cut short, due to a knee injury which prompted his return to Manchester City Football Club.

Kelvin grew up in South East London (Peckham) and attended St. Thomas the Apostle school for boys. He is the youngest of 3 brothers, the oldest of whom is footballer Dickson Etuhu who is currently at Sunderland AFC and also played for Manchester City FC (the other one Michael is at university). [1]

He made his first appearance for City on 25 September 2007 against Norwich City in the Carling Cup, coming on as a substitute and set up the winning goal for Georgios Samaras.

On 15 December 2007 Etuhu had scored his first goal in the premier league against Bolton Wanderers.

On Tuesday March 4, 2008 he joined Leicester City on loan until the end of the 2007/2008 season.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Big brother spurs Kelvin on". Retrieved on 2007-01-08. 
  2. ^ "Come in Kelvin", Leicester City F.C., 2008-03-04. Retrieved on 2008-03-05. 
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