Ikechukwu Ezenwa
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| Full name | Ikechukwu Vincent Ezenwa[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 October 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Yenagoa, Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Ocean Boys | 56 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Heartland F.C. | 61 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Sharks F.C. | 45 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Sunshine Stars | 38 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Ifeanyi Ubah F.C. | 28 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Enyimba International | 4 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Heartland F.C. | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2023 | Katsina United | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Nigeria U20 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Nigeria U23 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2019 | Nigeria | 21 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ikechukwu Vincent Ezenwa ⓘ (born 16 October 1988) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Ezenwa began his football professional career with Ocean Boys before he moved to Heartland F.C. in July 2008.[2] He moved to Ifeanyi Ubah FC in 2016.[3] He then completed a move to Enyimba International.[4]
He moved on to join Katsina United on 1 January 2019.[5]
Former Sunshine Stars Coach, Daramola Nicholas Akinsehinwa, acted as Ezenwa's trainer between the years 2013 to 2016, during his playing time with Sunshine Stars. Akinsehinwa helped Ezenwa develop his potential, which made the Nigeria Super Eagles call-up possible. Ikechukwu Ezenwa was part of the Nigeria squad at the 2014 World Cup.
International career
He was a member of the Nigeria U-23 at the 2008 Summer Olympics, featuring in the qualifier games.
He got the call up to the Nigeria national team in 2015 under the authority of coach Sunday Oliseh. Following the injury of Nigeria's first choice goalkeeper Carl Ikeme he was called up to be part of the squad in the World cup and Nations cup qualifications by Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr and given the number 1 jersey replacing Ikeme as first choice goalkeeper of Nigeria.
Ezenwa showed some class of keeping during Nigeria's back to back matches against the ‘indomitable lions’ of Cameroon in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In May 2018, he was named in Nigeria's preliminary 30-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.[6]
