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| Full name | Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam | ||
| Date of birth | March 13, 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Lagos, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left back, Midfielder | ||
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| Current club | Qingdao Jonoon | ||
| Number | 4 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| -1996 | Stationery Stores | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1996-1998 | Kwara United | ? ? | |
| 1998-2001 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 85 | (12) |
| 2001-2003 | Karlsruher SC | 56 | (4) |
| 2003-2005 | Hansa Rostock | 19 | (1) |
| 2005-2006 | Sportfreunde Siegen | 27 | (1) |
| 2006-2007 | Xiamen Lanshi | 38 | (0) |
| 2008-2009 | Changchun Yatai | 44 | (4) |
| 2010 | Guangzhou Evergrande | 18 | (1) |
| 2011- | Qingdao Jonoon | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 1999 | Nigeria U-20 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 October 2010. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam (born 13 March 1980) is a Nigerian football player from Umueri in Anambra State. He currently plays for Qingdao Jonoon in the Chinese Super League. His brother Innocent Melkam (a right sided midfielder) played soccer in Nigeria and now plays in the German League.
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In April 2007 he was banned 3 matches and fined 5000 RMB for misconduct for showing "All Referee of Chinese Super League were cheat." on his T-shirt after the match against Henan Jianye, to revenge the serious mistake of referee on the match Xiamen Lanshi against Shanghai Shenhua.
Melkam transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande in 2010.[1] He made his China League One debut for Guangzhou against Beijing BIT on 3 April.
He finished runner up at the 1999 African Youth Championship and quarter-finalist at 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. Gabriel Melkam was included in the Nigerian squad for the 2006 World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe on 5 September. The tie marked the debut of the then-Hansa Rostock defender Melkam, who narrowly missed out on a place in Nigeria's 2004 Cup of Nations squad.
His younger brother Innocent Melkam plays football in a German lower league.
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