Victor Ikpeba
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| Full name | Victor Nosa Ikpeba | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 June 1973 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Benin City, Nigeria | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1989 | ACB Lagos | |||||||||||
| 1989–1993 | R.F.C. de Liège | 79 | (27) | |||||||||
| 1993–1999 | Monaco | 169 | (55) | |||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Borussia Dortmund | 30 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2001–2002 | → Real Betis (loan) | 3 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Al Ittihad | 26 | (13) | |||||||||
| 2004 | Charleroi | 15 | (5) | |||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Al-Sadd | |||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1992–2002 | Nigeria | 31 | (7) | |||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Victor Nosa Ikpeba (born 12 June 1973) is a former Nigerian footballer who played as a forward for both club and country. Ikpeba played thirty-one international matches and scored seven goals for Nigeria. He played at the FIFA World Cups in 1994 and 1998. Ikpeba helped win the 1994 African Nations Cup and the Olympic football gold medal in 1996.
Ikpeba was discovered by Belgian club RFC Liégeois during the 1989 FIFA U-17 World Championship, and moved to play in Belgium together with teammate Sunday Oliseh. At the age of 20, after scoring 17 goals in 1992–93. Ikpeba was bought by French side AS Monaco then coached by Arsène Wenger, where he gradually became a success, albeit with a tough start. He showed outstanding form subsequent to the 1996 Olympics, scoring 13 league goals to help Monaco win the league title, and also finishing as the second-top goalscorer in the 1996–97 UEFA Cup. His performances earned him the African Footballer of the Year award in 1997. Two successful seasons followed. While at Monaco, Ikpeba nearly signed for Italian club Reggina, but his wife, unwilling to give up life in France, locked him in their house on the day he was to sign his contract. Ikpeba played in Jean Tigana's talented Monaco side which famously put Manchester United out of the Champions League in 1998 on away goals after a 1–1 draw at Old Trafford.
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