George Elokobi
George Elokobi playing for Nottingham Forest in February 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | George Nganyuo Elokobi | ||
| Date of birth | 31 January 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Mamfe, Cameroon | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Colchester United | ||
| Number | 15 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2004 | Dulwich Hamlet | ||
| 2004–2008 | Colchester United | 39 | (2) |
| 2005 | → Chester City (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2008–2014 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 85 | (2) |
| 2012 | → Nottingham Forest (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 2012 | → Bristol City (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Oldham Athletic | 24 | (3) |
| 2015– | Colchester United | 34 | (3) |
| 2016 | → Braintree Town (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:42, 1 March 2017 (UTC). |
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George Nganyuo Elokobi (born 31 January 1986) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a defender for League Two club Colchester United.
Elokobi moved from his native Cameroon to England at the age of 16, where he entered non-League football with Dulwich Hamlet. After a trial period, he was signed by Colchester United. He was loaned to Chester City in January 2005, where he made his professional debut, before going on to make 46 appearances for Colchester. He was signed by Wolverhampton Wanderers in January 2008, helping the club to promotion to the Premier League. He established himself as a regular in the first-team between 2009 and 2011, before he was loaned to Nottingham Forest for the second half of the 2011–12 season, making twelve league appearances. He was loaned out to Bristol City in September 2012, but suffered a near season ending injury on his debut when he fractured his ankle. He fell out of favour at Wolves, and at the end of the 2013–14 season he was released, joining Oldham Athletic. He spent one season with Oldham before returning to Colchester United in 2015. He had a spell at National League side Braintree Town on loan from Colchester in 2016.
Born in Mamfe, Cameroon, Elokobi was aged just eleven years old when he lost both his father (to diabetes) and his grandfather. He went to live with his grandmother the same year, while his mother moved to England to study. When she gained her qualifications, she found work and was able to send her son to "one of the best boarding schools in Cameroon". At the age of 16, Elokobi moved to London to join her, where he attended college, studying business, IT and sociology.
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