Abubakar Bello-Osagie

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Abu
Personal information
Full name Abubakar Bello-Osagie
Date of birth (1988-08-11) 11 August 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Benin City, Nigeria
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Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Sliema Wanderers
Number 11
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)
2013–2014-2015- [ years = 2014-15 penbroke atleta Sliema Wanderers 34 (16)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 of may 2013

Abubakar Bello-Osagie (born 11 August 1988),[1] commonly known as Abubakar or Abu,[2] is a Nigerian football striker[3] who currently plays for Sliema Wanderers in the Maltese Premier League.

Career

Born in Benin City, Edo State,[1] in 2005, he left Bendel Insurance of his home city of Benin, and joined River Plate in Argentina.[4] After four months playing for the club from Buenos Aires, Abubakar joined Brazilian club Internacional in 2006, through Argentine entrepreneur Marcelo Housemann, playing for the club's B team.[3] At Internacional he was teammates with Alexandre Pato and Luis Adriano. His performances with the B-Team were good, scoring a few goals in the Second Division, but he only managed a few first team appearances.

Bello-Osagie joined Rio de Janeiro-based club Vasco in December 2007, after being scouted by the former footballer Bismarck.[5] On 17 July 2008, he stayed on the bench for the first time, against Goiás,[6] playing his first professional league match as a Vasco player on 20 July 2008,[7] when his club was defeated by Atlético-PR 3–1 at Arena da Baixada, Curitiba, for the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.[8] He played four Série A matches in 2008, without scoring a goal.[9] Abu signed on 29 April 2009 for Caxias.[10] In the summer of 2010 Abu signed for Qormi in the Maltese Premier Division, where he has enjoyed a very successful spell and achieved a several accolades, such as 'Player of the Month'.[11]

References

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