Ikechi Anya
Anya with Watford in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ikechi Anya | ||
| Date of birth | 3 January 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Derby County | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Oxford United | ||
| 2003–2004 | Wycombe Wanderers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2007 | Wycombe Wanderers | 18 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Oxford City | 17 | (4) |
| 2008 | Halesowen Town | 17 | (0) |
| 2009 | Northampton Town | 14 | (3) |
| 2009–2010 | Sevilla Atlético | 22 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Celta B | 35 | (8) |
| 2011 | Celta | 1 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Granada | 0 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | → Cádiz (loan) | 29 | (4) |
| 2012–2013 | → Watford (loan) | 25 | (3) |
| 2013–2016 | Watford | 99 | (5) |
| 2016– | Derby County | 10 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2013– | Scotland | 24 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:21, 17 September 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2016 |
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Ikechi Anya (born 3 January 1988) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English club Derby County and the Scotland national team. A versatile player, he has been fielded in a number of other positions, including winger, wing-back and full-back. Anya has previously played for Wycombe Wanderers and Northampton Town and Watford, as well as Spanish sides Celta de Vigo, Sevilla Atlético and Granada.
Eligible to also represent Romania, Nigeria or England internationally, he chose to play for the country of his birth, Scotland. He received his first cap for the Scottish national team on 6 September 2013, coming off the bench in a 2–0 defeat to Belgium and scored his first international goal four days later in Scotland's following match away to Macedonia.
Anya's father is a Nigerian research scientist of the Igbo ethnic group and his mother a Romanian economist. The couple met while studying in Bucharest. After finishing their studies, his parents moved to Scotland in the late 1980s for his father to obtain his doctorate in metallurgy.
Anya was born in Glasgow, Scotland and spent his early childhood in the Castlemilk area. His mother, Mariena, states that as a boy Anya "was kicking a ball in front of the house where he grew up in Glasgow from morning till night as a very young boy." The family moved to Oxford when he was seven years old after his father got a job at the University of Oxford. Anya maintained his fondness for Scotland, stating that whenever Scotland played England he would cheer "Come on Scotland".
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