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Full name | Stanley Bobo Nwabali | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 10 June 1996||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Port Harcourt, Nigeria [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Chippa United | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | ||||||||||||||
–2019 | Go Round FC | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Wikki Tourists | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2020–2021 | Enyimba | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | Lobi Stars | 28 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2022 | Katsina United | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2022– | Chippa United | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2021– | Nigeria | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:06, 9 March 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 February 2024 (UTC) |
Stanley Bobbi 'Bobo' Nwabali MON (born 10 June 1996) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier Soccer League club Chippa United and the Nigeria national team. [3]
Nwabali was born in Port Harcourt, River State, Nigeria on 10 June 1996 into an Igbo Christian family. [4] [5] He considers German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer as his role model. [6] His last name Nwabali, means “Child of the Night” in the Igbo language. [7]
In 2019, Nwabili joined Go Round FC, a Nigerian club based in Omoku where he started his career as a striker, before later securing a move to Enyimba in 2020, followed by joining Lobi Stars, Katsina United and Chippa United a South African club in 2022. [8]
Nwabili earned his first cap for the Nigerian national team in 2021, [9] in an international friendly match against Mexico in Los Angeles, United States. [10]
In December 2023, he was called up for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Ivory Coast. [11] He was named Man of the Match in the semi-final encounter against South Africa, as he saved two penalties in a 4–2 victory during the shootouts following a 1–1 draw, which qualified his country to the final. [12] [13]
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