Samuel Eduok
Nigerian association football player
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Samuel Emem Eduok (born 31 January 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker.[2][3]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Samuel Emem Eduok[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 31 January 1994[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Itu, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
| Positions | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2014 | Dolphins | ||
| 2013 | → Akwa United (loan) | ||
| 2015–2017 | Espérance | 24 | (7) |
| 2016–2017 | → Kasımpaşa (loan) | 29 | (4) |
| 2017–2019 | Kasımpaşa | 78 | (19) |
| 2019 | BB Erzurumspor | 15 | (4) |
| 2019–2023 | Hajduk Split | 34 | (12) |
| 2020 | → Konyaspor (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Nigeria U20 | |||
| 2015– | Nigeria | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 November 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10:54, 29 January 2019 (UTC) | |||
Club career
Born in Itu,[1] Eduok played for Dolphins and Akwa United,[4] and was the second-top scorer in the 2014 Nigeria Premier League with 20 goals.[5] In December 2014 he signed a contract with Norwegian club Sarpsborg 08; after changing his mind he signed a second contract with Tunisian club Espérance in January 2015, resulting in a transfer row.[5] He completed the transfer to Espérance later that month.[6]
He moved initially on loan to Turkish club Kasımpaşa in August 2016.[7] The loan deal became permanent at the end of the 2016–17 season.[1]
In January 2019 he signed for BB Erzurumspor.[8] He left the club at the end of the season.
On 19 July 2019 Eduok signed for Croatian First Football League club HNK Hajduk Split. He signed a 3-year contract and was given the number 11 shirt.[9] Eduok scored on debut for Hajduk, coming off the bench and netting the 3rd goal in a 3–0 win over NK Varaždin at Stadion Varteks.[10]
In August 2020 he signed for Turkish club Konyaspor on loan.[11]
International career
Eduok has played for the Nigeria under-20s,[1][5] and played at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[12]
On Friday, 7 November 2014, he scored the first professional goal at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, via a 35th-minute header off Solomon Kwambe's assist, as the home-based Super Eagles beat Ghana U23 team 1–0, in an unofficial international friendly held to commission the sports complex.[13][14][15]
He had to pull out of the senior national team in January 2015 due to his ongoing club transfer row.[5]
He made his senior debut as a 69th-minute substitute in the 2017 Cup of Nations qualifier at Tanzania.[4]
