What is the name of Nigeria keeper?
Maduka Emilio Okoye is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays goalie for EFL Championship side Watford and the Nigeria national team. Okoye was born on August 28, 1999, and he has been playing football professionally since then. Okoye was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Nigerian Igbo father and a German mother. Both of Okoye’s…
Maduka Emilio Okoye is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays goalie for EFL Championship side Watford and the Nigeria national team. Okoye was born on August 28, 1999, and he has been playing football professionally since then.
Okoye was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Nigerian Igbo father and a German mother. Both of Okoye’s parents are of German descent.
In the summer of 2017, he made the decision to join the young team of Fortuna Düsseldorf after seven years of playing for the youth squad of Bayer Leverkusen, where he had been a member since 2009.
After coming in as a substitute for the injured Max Schijns in the 43rd minute of Fortuna Düsseldorf II’s game against Wuppertaler SV on October 14, 2017, he made his first appearance in a professional game in the Regionalliga West for Fortuna Düsseldorf II.
He concluded the 2017/2018 season with 5 appearances, conceding just 1 goal and keeping 4 clean sheets, while his team finished the season in the 15th position with 36 points after 34 games, narrowly surviving relegation to Oberliga. The season ended with his team finishing in 15th place overall.
What is the name of Nigeria keeper?
The number one goalie for the Nigerian national team is named Maduka Emilio Okoye.
