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Full name | Abubakar Bello-Osagie | ||
Date of birth | 11 August 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Benin City, Nigeria | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
–2005 | Bendel Insurance | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2005–2006 | River Plate | 5 | (1) |
2006–2007 | Internacional | 4 | (1) |
2008 | Vasco da Gama | 4 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Caxias | 9 | (2) |
2010–2013 | Qormi | 63 | (20) |
2013 | → Valletta (loan) | 9 | (5) |
2013–2014 | Sliema Wanderers | 13 | (3) |
2014–2015 | Victoria Hotspurs | ||
2015 | Pembroke Athleta | 11 | (6) |
2015–2016 | Senglea Athletic | 11 | (1) |
2016–2019 | Lija Athletic | 55 | (17) |
2020 | Naxxar Lions | 6 | (3) |
2020–2022 | Marsaskala | 12 | (7) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:42, 27 February 2023 (UTC) |
Abubakar Bello-Osagie (born 11 August 1988), commonly known as Abubakar or Abu, is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker, most recently for Marsaskala in Malta.
Born in Benin City, Edo State, in 2005, he left Bendel Insurance of his home city of Benin, and joined River Plate in Argentina. [1]
Bello-Osagie joined Rio de Janeiro-based club Vasco in December 2007, after being scouted by the former footballer Bismarck. [2] On 17 July 2008, he stayed on the bench for the first time, against Goiás, [3] playing his first professional league match as a Vasco player on 20 July 2008, [4] when his club was defeated by Atlético-PR 3–1 at Arena da Baixada, Curitiba, for the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. He played four Série A matches in 2008, without scoring a goal. Abu signed on 29 April 2009 for Caxias. [5]
In the summer of 2010 Abu signed for Qormi in the Maltese Premier Division, where he enjoyed a very successful spell and achieved several accolades, such as 'Player of the Month'. [6] He played for various clubs in Malta from 2010, before leaving Marsaskala in 2022. [7]