Victor Obinna was born in Nigeria on March 25, 1987. He is a midfielder. Today, Victor defends the honor of his national Nigerian team, as well as the colors of the club Duisburg.
Carier start
Victor Obinna began his career at the Chievo club. With this team, he signed a contract for 5 years (in 2005). In his debut season, the player scored 6 goals in 26 matches played. The first goal, by the way, he scored in the first match. Interestingly, the score remained 1-0. So, in fact, the newcomer helped the club defeat Parma.
And in the first months of the next, 2006, year he was not seen on the field. What happened to a player named Victor Obinna? Why not play? These questions prevailed over many at first. But very soon after the incident, it turned out that he was disqualified. And all due to the fact that he had two contracts - with “Internacional” and “Chievo”. At the end of the season, the Verona club left Serie A. But he decided to leave Victor at his place, as he intended to return to the Premier League.
But on October 4, Obinna got into a terrible accident when he was driving home from training. Another car was trying to overtake him at the corner, and Victor tried to get away from the collision. As a result, the football player’s car rolled over several times. The player himself lost consciousness, but he was rescued from a mangled car and taken to a hospital. Fortunately, the footballer did not get anything worse than bruises and abrasions.
Further development of a sports career
In 2008, Victor Obinna became a player at Inter. Everton instantly showed interest in him, but the British were refused a rental. They just could not get a work permit for the player. He designed the first goal for the Milan team in the match against FC Roma. And Jose Mourinho, who trained Inter at the time, said that Victor Obinna is a footballer who is one of the most talented and promising at Inter.
But in 2009, the player was rented by FC Malaga for the season. In 2010, he moved to West Ham. Also on loan. Thanks to him, the club got into the semifinals of the Champions League - for the first time in 20 years! And all thanks to the fact that on November 30 in the game against Manchester United he designed 4 assists. Thus, the score was 4: 0. But in the first semi-final he was removed from the field.
January 30, Victor issued a hat-trick in a game against the club “Nottingham Forest”. After 3 days, in the next game, he scored 2 goals against Blackpool.
Last years
In 2011, Victor Obinna signed a contract for 4 years with Moscow Lokomotiv. Then he was in the status of a free agent. On August 25 of the same year, he scored his first goal for the capital's club. It was in a match held in the playoffs of the Europa League. In total, he played 45 games for the metropolitan team and scored 3 goals. At the same time, FC Chievo rented it once (in 2014).
The last team was “Duisburg”. Viktor moved there in September 9, 2015. With the German team, he signed a contract for the season with the possibility of extending it then for another year. At the moment he is playing there.
Team game
Finally, a few words should be said about the career of a famous football player in his national team. Victor was a member of the Nigerian youth team (under twenty), and with it he won the Champion title at the African Youth Championship held in Benin. That was in 2005.
A little later, the player was called up to the first team to help the team play in the African Cup of Nations, which was held in 2006. By the way, there the Nigerian team reached the semifinals. Obinna even scored 1 goal.
In 2008, he went to Beijing, where the Olympic Games were held. It was Victor who opened the account in the victory for their national team game against Japan. He also scored a goal in the match against the United States. The goal, by the way, was victorious. The score was 1: 1 until Victor managed to send the ball into the opponents' goal and increase it to 2: 1.
In general, this football player has a very rich and factual career. And you can be sure that he will still reveal his full potential and will achieve considerable success.