Player Profile: Meet Newcastle’s In Form Nigerian Forward Sammy Ameobi

FIRST NAME: Samuel MIDDLE NAME: Oluwaseyi LAST NAME: Ameobi NATIONALITY: Nigeria DATE OF BIRTH: 1, May 1992 AGE: 22 COUNTRY OF BIRTH: Newcas...

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FIRST NAME: Samuel

MIDDLE NAME: Oluwaseyi

LAST NAME: Ameobi

NATIONALITY: Nigeria

DATE OF BIRTH: 1, May 1992

AGE: 22

COUNTRY OF BIRTH: Newcastle upon Tyne , England

POSITION: Winger

SQUAD NUMBER: 28

CURRENT CLUB: Newcastle United Fc

HEIGHT: 1.94m

WEIGHT: 66kg

Samuel Oluwaseyi J. “Sammy “ Ameobi (born 1 may 1992) is a footballer who plays for Newscastle United as a winger. He is the younger brother of fellow players Shola and Tomi Ameobi.

Born in England, Ameobi was capped by England at under-21 level before switching his allegiance to Nigeria in August 2014.

CLUB CAREER

NEWCASTLE UNITED

Born  in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, Ameobi joined the Newcastle United Academy in July 2008 after finishing school and made his reserve team debut on 29 September 2008 against Blackburn Rovers.

He made his first-team debut on 15 May 2011 as a second-half substitute against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in a 2-2 draw, alongside his brother shola, coming on for Peter Lovenkrands just before Chelsea made the game 2-1.

This prompted Newcastle fans to change a favourite chant from “There ‘s only one Ameobi” to “There’s only two Ameobis”. They became the first pair of brothers to play for Newcastle in a league match  since George and Ted Robledo in 1952.

Ameobi scored his first senior goal on 15 July 2011, in a pre-season friendly against Darlington.

On 17 November 2011, Ameobi signed a new three-and-half-year contract extension with Newcastle United, keeping him at the club until 2015

Ameobi joined Middlebrough on 25 February on loan until the end of the 2012-13 season. On 2 March, Ameobi scored on his debut for the club in a 2-1 victory over Cardiff City.

INTERNATIONAL CAREER

Ameobi joined the Nigeria U-20 squad training in Turkey ahead of the 2011 African Youth Championship. He appeared in two friendly games for the Nigeria U20s against Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

However, in November 2011, he was called up to the England U-21 squad for the matches against Iceland  and Belgium by Stuart Pierce.

But in 2014, Ameobi confirmed that he has chosen to follow elder brother Shola in declaring  for Nigeria.

PERSONAL LIFE

Ameobi has two older brothers who are also footballers: Shola, his former teammate at Newcastle, and Tomi, who plays for FC Edmonton in Canada.

He attended Heaton Manor School in Newcastle and Grindon Hall Christian School in Sunderland, and finished school with 11 GCSEs prior to joining the Newcastle academy on a scholarship.

Source: Wikipedia