The footballer discussed in this articleI played in Russia for only two years, but I remember as one of the best strikers in the history of our championship. Emenike Emmanuel scored 21 goals in 42 matches for Spartak Moscow, which is quite good by the standards of the Russian Premier League.
Powerful, pushy forward from Nigeria lovedfans of red and whites, at least for their first goal for Spartak in the Moscow derby against CSKA, when Emenike scored five minutes after the replacement. How did this footballer come to Russia and where is he now?
Emmanuel Chinenie Emenike was born on May 10, 1987years in the Nigerian city Otuocha. In his first club, “Delta Force,” the player’s salary wasn’t paid, and he went to workouts on foot — a half hour journey back and forth.
Emenike began to receive his first money in the SouthAfrica in the team "Black Aces", speaking at the time in the second most powerful division of South Africa. Emenike signed a contract with the new club in January 2008, and scored the first goal in the debut match against Dynamo in February. Emenike’s salary in Black Aces was 350 euros.
In May of the same year, the Nigerian footballer moved to Cape Town, where over the next season he beat 14 goals and got the opportunity to show himself in Europe.
Emenike's path to Europe began with the First LeagueTurkey (the second strongest division). In 2009, the footballer is leased by Karabukspor. The lease turns out to be very successful for the Turkish club: Emenike scored 16 goals in a season in 28 meetings, which helped Karabukspor to get into the Super League. The Turkish club signed the league’s best legionary forward on a permanent basis.
The 2010/11 season was even more for Emenike.well, because now Emmanuel scored goals in the strongest division of Turkey. He failed to beat last year's bar for 16 goals, scoring 14, but this time he took part in fewer matches - at twenty-three.
В мае 2011 года нигерийский форвард выиграл lawsuit against a local newspaper. The newspaper "Haber Turk" published material in which it was said that the Nigerian striker was hiding his age, and in fact he is seven years older. In the same year, the striker received his first call in the first team of Nigeria. At the moment, the player has 37 matches and 9 goals for the national team.
At the end of the 2010/11 season, Emmanuel joined Fenerbahce, one of the leading clubs in Turkey, who became the champion that year.
Emenike’s debut for Fenerbahce took place onlyin two years. The fact is that soon after the Nigerian signed a contract with the new club, there was information according to which the yellow canaries could be deprived of the championship and banished to the First League for taking part in match-fixing matches. Emenike Emmanuel decided not to wait for the outcome of the proceedings and hurried to declare his intention to leave the club. He wanted to leave, however, not so much a club as a country, because in Turkey he was threatened with a prison sentence. The Nigerian fell under suspicion, because in the championship match between his former club and Fenerbahce Emenike, being completely healthy, did not take to the pitch, although he was his team's top scorer. The football player even spent four days in prison. Following the investigation, the Nigerian attacker was formally charged, but Emenike had already moved to Moscow in Spartak Moscow by that time.
В «Спартаке» давно следили за Эммануэлем, и The club management worked quickly, ahead of Rubin in Kazan and Atletico Madrid. In August 2011, three months after moving to Fenerbahce, the Nigerian striker signed a contract with Spartak. The amount of the transaction was about nine million euros.
His first goal for the red and white Emenike scored inMoscow derby against CSKA. At 70 minutes after five minutes after the replacement, the score in the match was equalized by Emenike Emmanuel. Spartak played in a draw in a draw - 2: 2. Emenike spent the year 2011 at a high level, scoring 8 goals in 11 meetings.
Team achievements Emenike in "Spartacus" is notachieved, but repeated the record of Nikita Simonyan: the Nigerian striker managed to score five goals to Lokomotiv in two games of the same season. And in the first round of the 2012/13 season, Emenike scored one of the fastest goals in the history of the Russian championship, hitting the gate of “Alania” at the tenth second.
Not without scandals involving Emenike.On May 6, 2012, the Nigerian striker scored a goal for Zenit and celebrated the goal by hitting his right forearm with his left hand, for which he unexpectedly got a red card. “I just wanted to copy the gesture of Samuel Eto, expressing gratitude to the ancestors,” Emenike Emmanuel explained his celebration of the goal scored. The footballer eventually missed the next match, although the Ethics Committee did not find anything offensive in the actions of the Nigerian.
In August 2013, Emenike was again inFenerbahce. According to the football player, he always dreamed of playing for Fenerbahce and was very excited by the transition. This time there were no excesses, and the striker finally made his debut for Istanbul.
After returning, Emmanuel stayed in Fenerbahce for two years, during which he managed to play 55 matches and score 16 goals. Then in the summer of 2015 it was rented to the club from the United Arab Emirates Al Ain.
For a year and a half in the Emirates, the striker shot 7goals in 11 meetings, followed by a new lease. Footballer went back to Europe. Now Emenike plays on loan in English “West Ham”. As of March 2016, the "Hammers" are fighting for a place in the four, giving the right to get into the Champions League, and the Nigerian striker is gradually getting used to the new championship.
