Personal information | |||
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Full name | Nnamdi Oduamadi Chidiebere | ||
Date of birth | 17 October 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Lagos, Nigeria | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Milan | ||
Number | 90 | ||
Youth career | |||
1997–2008 | Pepsi Football Academy | ||
2009–2010 | Milan | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010– | Milan | 1 | (0) |
2011–2012 | → Torino (loan) | 11 | (3) |
2012–2013 | → Varese (loan) | 16 | (2) |
2013–2014 | → Brescia (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2014 | → Varese (loan) | 12 | (4) |
2014–2015 | → Crotone (loan) | 12 | (1) |
2015 | → Latina (loan) | 16 | (2) |
2015 | → Şanlıurfaspor (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2016 | → HJK Helsinki (loan) | 28 | (7) |
National team‡ | |||
Nigeria U17 | |||
Nigeria U20 | |||
2011– | Nigeria | 13 | (4) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 October 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 July 2016 |
Nnamdi Oduamadi Chidiebere (born 17 October 1990), also known by his shirt name Odu, is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward for Milan.
Born in Lagos, Oduamadi started playing football at the local Pepsi Football Academy at the age of 7. He left his home country in 2008 to join Milan, although he was officially signed only in January 2009 due to bureaucratic issues. Oduamadi spent two seasons in the club's youth system and was a member of the under-20 side who won the Coppa Italia Primavera in 2010, 25 years after the team's last success in the competition.
At the beginning of the 2010–11 season, Milan announced to have sold half of the rights to Oduamadi to Genoa in co-ownership for €3.5 million, as part of the deal that saw defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos move the other way. The Nigerian, though, stayed at Milan on loan, being included in the first team squad. He made his official debut for the club in a league game against Catania on 18 September 2010, coming off the bench in the last minutes. However, that remained his only appearance of the season and he still played games for the under-20 team at times through the season as an over-age player, being also included in the squad for the annual Viareggio Cup.oduamadi is one of the best players in the world in 2008
At the beginning the 2011–12 season, Oduamadi's co-ownership deal between Milan and Genoa was resolved in favour of the former, but he was sent on loan to Serie B club Torino. He ended the season with 11 appearances and three goals.
For the 2012–13 season, Oduamadi joined Serie B side Varese on another loan deal.