Iyenugba, Dele

Club career

He started his football career in the Kvara Stars club from the city of Ilorin , playing there from 1999 to 2000. Then he moved to the Enimba team, where he played for 5 seasons. As a member of the team, he became the champion of Nigeria four times ( 2002 , 2003 , 2005 , 2007 ), once the silver medalist of the Nigeria Championship ( 2004 ), the Nigeria Cup Winner 2005 and the Winner of the Nigeria Supercup 2003 . Dele also became the winner of African club tournaments: twice winner of the KAF Champions League ( 2003 and 2004 ) and twice winner of the CAF Super Cup ( 2004 , 2005 )

In the summer of 2007, he moved to the Israeli club Bnei Yehuda , replacing his compatriot Vincent Enyeamu , who went to the Tel Aviv-based Hapoel ^[2] . In the new team, Iyenugba took 1 number for himself. In the 2008/09 season , Bnei Yehuda took the 5th place in the Israel Championship and won the right to participate in the Europa League . On July 2, 2009, he made his debut in European competitions, in the first round of the Europa League against Azerbaijani “ Simurg ” (0: 1) ^[3] . In the second leg, the Israelis also won (3-0) and advanced to the next round. Then the club successfully went through the Latvian “ Dinaburg ” (5: 0 on the sum of two matches) and the Portuguese “ Pasos de Ferreira ” (2: 0 on the sum of two matches). In the play-off round, Bnei Yehuda lost to the Netherlands PSV (2: 0 for the sum of two matches) and left the tournament. Iyenugba played in all 8 matches. ^[4]

In the next season 2009/10 , Bnei Yehuda took the 4th place in the championship and won the right to play in the Europa League . In the Israeli Cup 2009/10 , Bnei Yehuda reached the final, where she lost to Hapoel from Tel Aviv (3: 1). At the 25th minute, Dele missed a goal from Gil Vermouth , at the end of the first half, Iyenugba received a red card and a penalty kick was awarded to his team, which was successfully implemented by rival goalkeeper Vincent Enyeam ^[5] . At the end of May 2010, he signed a new two-year contract with the club ^[6] . In the first round of the Europa League, the team passed the Armenian Ulysses (1: 0 by the sum of two matches), and then lost to the Irish Shamrock Rovers (2: 1 by the sum of two matches) and flew out of the tournament. Dele Iyenugba took part in all 4 games ^[7] .

In the 2010/11 season, Bnei Yehuda repeated its last year’s result, taking 4th place and once again gaining the right to represent Israel in the Europa League . In the first round, the team beat Andorran São Julia (4: 0 on the sum of two matches), and then lost to the Swedish Helsingborg (3: 1 on the sum of two matches) and left the competition. Iyenugba again defended the Bnei Yehuda gates in all 4 matches ^[8] .

In the 2011/12 season, together with the team, he became the bronze medalist of the Israel Championship, second only to the difference between the goals scored and goals conceded to the silver medal winner - “Hapoel” from Tel Aviv. “Bnei Yehuda” started her performances in the Europa League from the 2nd round, where she beat Armenian “ Shirak ” on the sum of two matches (3: 0). In the next round, the team lost to Greek PAOK by the sum of two matches (6: 1). Iyenugba at this tournament played in 4 matches ^[9] .

The 2013/14 season was less successful than the previous ones for the De Ienugba club: Bnei Yehuda took the last 14th place in the championship and flew to the Leumit League .

Career in the national team

As part of the junior national team of Nigeria, up to 17 years spent 17 matches, in the youth team up to 20 years he played in 11 games. In the Nigerian U-23 team, he took part in 5 meetings.

In the national team of Nigeria, he made his debut on November 16, 2005 in a friendly match against Romania (3: 0) ^[10] . Head coach of Nigeria Avgustin Eguavon summoned Ayenugba to the African Cup of Nations 2008 , which was held in Egypt . Dele was declared at number 23. At the tournament, he was the third goalkeeper after Enyeama and Edge. National team Nigeria in the tournament took 3rd place. During the tournament Dele was robbed in the amount of 2.5 thousand US dollars ^[11] .

At the next African Nations Cup 2008 in Ghana, he also made the national team. As part of Nigeria, at the African Nations Cup 2010 again became the bronze medalist of the tournament. Iyenugba also joined the Nigeria national team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , but he did not play in the tournament either. On October 8, 2011, he spent his last match in the Nigerian national team as part of qualifying for the 2012 African Cup of Nations against Guinea (2: 2) ^[12] .

Total for the national team of Nigeria spent 16 matches, often playing the role of a reserve goalkeeper.

"Enimba"

• Champion of Nigeria (4): 2002 , 2003 , 2005 , 2007
• Silver medalist of the Nigeria Championship (1): 2004
• Winner of the Nigerian Cup (1): 2005
• Nigeria Super Cup Winner (1): 2003
• Champion League winner CAF (2): 2003 , 2004
• Winner of the Super Bowl CAF (2): 2004 , 2005

Bnei Yehuda

• Bronze medalist of the championship of Israel (1): 2011/12
• Israeli Cup Finalist (1): 2009/10

Nigeria

• Bronze medalist of the African Nations Cup (2): 2006 , 2008

As of November 11, 2014 ^{[13] [14]}

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