Aiyegbeni Yakubu (born November 22, 1982 in Benin City, Nigeria), often known as Yakubu, is a Nigerian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Middlesbrough F.C. He weighs 81 kg and is 1.85 meters in height. Image File history File linksMetadata Aiyegbeni_Yakubu. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Aiyegbeni_Yakubu. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location of Benin City in Nigeria Benin, a city (2006 est. ... Football (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Middlesbrough Football Club is an English football club, commonly known as The Boro, currently in the FA Premier League. ... KG, Kg or kg may indicate: A Kampfgeschwader, a bomber squadron of the former German Luftwaffe Basketball Player Kevin Garnett An abbreviation for kilogram (always kg) Knight of the Garter, a British decoration Kommanditgesellschaft, German version of a limited partnership Kongo language (ISO 639 alpha-2) An abbreviation for konig... metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation) The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. ...

A striker, Yakubu started his career at Israeli team Maccabi Haifa F.C., where he won two championships and had a phenomenal scoring record both in the domestic and international competitions - breaking several club records. After scoring 7 goals in 8 European Cup appearances (including a hat-trick against Olympiakos) in the 2002/03 season UEFA Champions League, Yakubu moved to English club Portsmouth F.C. in January 2003. The striker (wearing the red shirt) has run past the defender (in the white shirt) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to attempt to stop the ball. ... Maccabi Haifa F.C. is an association football (soccer) club based in Haifa, Israel. ... In sports, a hat-trick (more often rendered in North America as hat trick, without the hyphen) is associated with achieving something in a group of three. ... Official logo The UEFA Champions League is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the most successful football clubs in Europe. ... Founded in 1898, Portsmouth Football Club are an English association football club based in the south coast city port of Portsmouth. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His goals helped fire Portsmouth to the Division One (now Football League Championship) title, scoring at a rate of one goal every two games. The Football League Championship logo The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the FA Premier...

During the club's debut Premiership season, during which they finished 13th, he scored 16 times in 35 starts. During the summer of 2004 several other Premiership teams were interested in purchasing Yakubu for up to £10 million, but he chose to stay and help consolidate the club's Premiership position. FA Premier League logo The FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclays Premiership or just The Premiership in the UK and as the Barclays English Premier League or the English Premier League or the EPL internationally) is a league competition for English Football clubs located at the top...

After the 2004-05 season, he transferred from Pompey to Boro for a £7.5 million fee. In one if his most memorable matches since joining Boro, Yakubu (Man Of The Match) scored the third goal in a rampant 3-0 win over runaway premiership leaders Chelsea, ensuring their second defeat of the season. Middlesbrough Football Club is an English football club, commonly known as The Boro, currently in the FA Premier League. ...

He has been capped several times for Nigeria, and is a regular in the national team. At the end of 2005, shortly before the African Nations Cup preparation camp for the Nigerian national team was about to start, Yakubu rejected the call-up to the camp opting to play an important role for Middlesbrough, meaning that he was not selected for the 2006 Nations Cup.

Yakubu scored the only goal of the game with a penalty in the first leg of the UEFA Cup last 16 round at home against A.S. Roma, giving Middlesbrough a 1-0 victory. Middlesbrough later went through on away goals, despite losing 1-2 in the Olimpico. UEFA Cup logo The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams. ... Associazione Sportiva Roma (ISE: IT0001008876) is an Italian football club and the major in Rome and in central part of Italy. ...

Career Data

• Maccabi Haifa Youth team (1999)
• Hapoel Kfar Saba (2000)
  • A second division club, played on loan
• Maccabi Haifa (2001 - 2003)
  • 24 domestic league goals in 50 appearances
  • 8 domestic cup goals in 9 appearances
  • 7 domestic European Cup goals in 11 appearances
• Portsmouth F.C. (2002 - 2003)
  • 7 Coca-Cola Championship goals in 14 appearances
• Portsmouth F.C. (2003-2005)
  • 28 Premier League goals in 67 appearances
  • 3 FA Cup goals in 6 appearances
  • 4 League Cup goals in 5 appearances
• Middlesbrough F.C. (2005 - )
  • 12 Premier League goals in 20 appearances
  • 0 UEFA cup goals in 2 appearances

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External links

• Yakubu at Soccerbase
• Yakubu page on Maccabi Haifa website (Hebrew)