Wilson Oruma
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| Date of birth | 30 December 1976 | ||||||||
| Place of birth | Warri, Nigeria | ||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||
| Playing position | Right Midfielder | ||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||
| 1993–1994 | Bendel Insurance | ? | (?) | ||||||
| 1994–1998 | Lens | 42 | (2) | ||||||
| 1996–1997 | → Nancy (loan) | 22 | (0) | ||||||
| 1998–1999 | Samsunspor | 21 | (4) | ||||||
| 1999–2000 | Nîmes | 25 | (2) | ||||||
| 2000–2002 | Servette | 49 | (12) | ||||||
| 2002–2005 | Sochaux | 77 | (6) | ||||||
| 2005–2008 | Marseille | 56 | (3) | ||||||
| 2008–2009 | Guingamp | 24 | (5) | ||||||
| 2009–2010 | AO Kavala | 23 | (0) | ||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||
| 1995–2006 | Nigeria | 19 | (3) | ||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 April 2010. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 August 2006 |
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Wilson Oruma (born 30 December 1976 in Warri, Nigeria) is a former football midfielder from Nigeria.
Oruma played most of his career in France, after arriving at RC Lens from Bendel Insurance in 1994. A season after being loaned to Nancy, he returned to Lens and played seven matches during their 1997–98 Ligue 1 title campaign. After representing Nigeria at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, he moved to Turkish side Samsunspor, returning to France one year later to play for Nîmes.
In 2000, Oruma was transferred to Swiss side Servette, playing two season before coming back to France again, where he played until 2009 for Sochaux,Marseille and Guingamp, winning the 2003-04 Coupe de la Ligue with Sochaux and the 2008-09 Coupe de France with Guingamp, despite them being a Ligue 2 club at the time. He was handed a trial by Cardiff City - a club based in Wales but who play in the English football league system - in the summer of 2008 and scored in a 2-2 pre-season friendly at Chasetown, but was not awarded a contract due to a lack of fitness.
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