Abubakar Bello-Osagie (born 11 August 1988), commonly known as Abubakar or Abu, is a Nigerian

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striker, who plays for

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in Malta.

Career

Born in

Benin City Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, Edo State, Nigeria. It is the fourth-largest city in Nigeria according to the 2006 census, after Lagos, Kano (city), Kano, and Ibadan, with a population estimate of about 3,500,000 as of ...

Edo State Edo, commonly known as Edo State, is a state located in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. As of 2006 National population census, the state was ranked as the 24th populated state (3,233,366) in Nigeria, However there was controversy ...

, in 2005, he left Bendel Insurance of his home city of Benin, and joined River Plate in Argentina. After four months playing for the club from

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, Abubakar joined Brazilian club

Internacional Sport Club Internacional (), commonly known as Internacional or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Série A, the first division of the Brazilian league, as well as in Campeonato ...

in 2006, through Argentine entrepreneur Marcelo Housemann, playing for the club's B team. 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 Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

-based club Vasco in December 2007, after being scouted by the former footballer Bismarck. On 17 July 2008, he stayed on the bench for the first time, against

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, playing his first professional league match as a Vasco player on 20 July 2008, when his club was defeated by

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3–1 at

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, for the

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (; English: "Brazilian Championship A Series"), commonly referred to as the Brasileirão (; English: "Big Brazilian"), and also known as Brasileirão Assaí due to sponsorship with Assaí Atacadista, is a Br ...

. He played four Série A matches in 2008, without scoring a goal. Abu signed on 29 April 2009 for Caxias. In the summer of 2010 Abu signed for Qormi in the Maltese Premier Division, where he has enjoyed a very successful spell and achieved several accolades, such as 'Player of the Month'.

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Abubakar Bello-Osagie
at MFA {{DEFAULTSORT:Abubakar Living people 1988 births Nigerian footballers Nigerian expatriate footballers Sportspeople from Benin City Bendel Insurance F.C. players Sport Club Internacional players Club Atlético River Plate footballers CR Vasco da Gama players Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul players Qormi F.C. players Valletta F.C. players Sliema Wanderers F.C. players Victoria Hotspurs F.C. players Pembroke Athleta F.C. players Senglea Athletic F.C. players Lija Athletic F.C. players Naxxar Lions F.C. players Expatriate footballers in Argentina Expatriate footballers in Brazil Expatriate footballers in Malta Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Malta Association football midfielders