Adewale Wahab

Adewale Wahab
Personal information
Full name Adewale Dauda Wahab
Date of birth (1984-10-04) 4 October 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Bellinzona
Number 20
Youth career
?–2001 Reggiana
2001 → Bologna (loan)
2001–2004 Roma
2001–2002 → Reggiana (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2001 Reggiana 2 (0)
2001–2007 Roma 1 (0)
2004–2005 → Ternana (loan) 10 (1)
2005–2006 → Teramo (loan) 9 (0)
2006–2007 → Catanzaro (loan) 30 (1)
2007–2013 Bellinzona 53 (0)
International career‡
2004 Nigeria 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 June 2005

Adewale Dauda Wahab (born 4 October 1984 in Port Harcourt) is a Nigerian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Until end of the season 2010–11, he played for AC Bellinzona.

Career

Roma

Wahab started his European career with Italian club Reggiana, along with Obafemi Martins and other Nigerian players. Both players were signed by Italian giants Roma in July 2001,[1] for 3 billion lire, while Giuseppe Di Masi moved in the opposite direction for 2.5 billion lire on a co-ownership deal.[2] Wahab was loaned back to Reggiana in the 2001–02 season. He played for Roma's Primavera team in 2002–-03 season, and was promoted to the first team in the 2003–04 season, playing once in Serie A and once in the 2003–04 UEFA Cup, when he substituted Daniele De Rossi against FK Vardar.[3] Wahab also played for Bologna in the 2001 Torneo Città di Arco [it].[4]

He then spent three seasons loaned to clubs in the Italian lower divisions.[5] Although he was loaned to other clubs, in 2006 his contract was extended from 2007 to 2009.

Bellinzona

In summer 2007, Wahab was signed by AC Bellinzona. In the 2009–10 season, he went to SE Eivissa-Ibiza and played a few friendlies.[6] However, the transfer collapsed after the club was expelled from the league and re-admitted as the new club UD Ibiza-Eivissa in the regional league.[citation needed]

Wahab then played two league matches for Bellinzona, in October and November. In January 2010, he was dropped from the squad, but was later re-included in the team's official roster for the 2010–11 season.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "La Roma ha acquistato il centrocampista nigeriano Adewale Dauda Wahab" (Press release) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 12 July 2001. Archived from the original on 14 February 2002. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
  2. ^ A.S. Roma S.p.A. bilancio al 2002-06-30 (in Italian). Rome: Italian C.C.I.A.A. 2002.
  3. ^ "Vardar 1 - 1 Roma" (Match report). Skopje: UEFA. 15 October 2003. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Chiusura della campagna trasferimenti:operazioni di mercato perfezionate in data odierna" (Press release) (in Italian). A.S. Roma. 31 August 2005. Retrieved 22 January 2010. [dead link‍]
  6. ^ "SIENA-IBIZA 1–0" (in Italian). AC Siena. 1 August 2009. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2010.