MacPherlin Dudu Omagbemi (born 18 July 1987, in

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), commonly known as Dudu, is a Nigerian

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Career

Dudu started his career in India in 2001. He is the most tenacious player India has ever seen. When playing in the Indian Football League he had many great successes with

Sporting Clube de Goa Sporting Clube de Goa, simply known as Sporting Goa (also known by its abbreviation SCG), is an Indian professional football club based in Panaji, in the Indian state of Goa, that competes in Goa Professional League. The club has also competed ...

even becoming the league's top goalscorer. During his time in India he was involved in a scandal when he signed a contract with two different clubs simultaneously; one with SC Goa and another one with

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. The issue was later settled between the two clubs. He also had few other disputes with SC Goa later on concerning similar incidents. The charismatic football player rejected the 2008 Olympic call-up to put his career back on track and on 5 August 2008 he joined the 3 time Hungarian champion

Debreceni VSC Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club is a professional football club, based in Debrecen, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the first tier of Hungarian football. They are best known internationally for reaching the group stages of the ...

. In August 2010 Dudu signed a contract with Finnish Division Two club FC OPA from where he was loaned out to Finnish Premier League side

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. In October 2010 Dudu signed a contract for the 2011 season with another

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team

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. On 4 August 2012, he signed a contract until autumn 2013 with

. On 4 August 2014, Dudu signed for I-League side

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for a one-year deal. On 1 September 2016, he joined

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. On 26 November, he scored a brilliant hat-trick against North East United FC. On 6 January 2018, Dudu joined

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. He made his first appearance of the season in the

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on 21 January 2018 which

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lost by a 0-2 margin. He found the net near the end of the added-time to help

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beat

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by a solitary goal, which was the first goal from the Nigerian striker, who returned to

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after three seasons as a midseason replacement for injured Willis Plaza. He then scored 4 times when

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was massacred 7-1 by

. In January 2020, after one and a half year without club, Dudu returned to Swedish club

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. The club confirmed on 15 April 2020, that he had left the club again to return to Finland, where his family was. He then joined

Mikkelin Palloilijat Mikkelin Palloilijat (or MP) is a Finnish professional football club, based in Mikkeli, that competes in the Ykkönen. The club was founded in 1929 and also included volleyball, bandy and ice hockey sections. History In 1998, MP merged with Mi ...

on 25 August 2020.

Honours

Sporting Clube de Goa

* 2.Division: 2002–03

Wisła Kraków

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 cl ...

: 2007–08

Debreceni VSC

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: 2008/09 *

Hungarian Super Cup The Hungarian Super Cup is an annual association football match between the League ( Nemzeti Bajnokság I) champions and the Cup (Magyar Kupa) winners. Winners (*) due to violent incidents during the recent 1997–98 Magyar Kupa Final betwee ...

: 2009

FC Honka

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: 2011

Individual

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Golden Boot: 2004–05

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Omagbemi, Dudu 1985 births Living people Footballers from Lagos Nigerian footballers Men's association football forwards Nigerian expatriate footballers Dempo SC players Salgaocar FC players Penang F.C. players Wisła Kraków players Debreceni VSC players Kecskeméti TE players Kuopion Palloseura players FC Honka players Sporting Clube de Goa players FC Pune City players FC Goa players Chennaiyin FC players East Bengal Club players Oskarshamns AIK players Mikkelin Palloilijat players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Ekstraklasa players Veikkausliiga players I-League players Indian Super League players Ykkönen players Ettan Fotboll players Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in India Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate footballers in Hungary Expatriate footballers in Poland Expatriate footballers in Malaysia Expatriate footballers in India Expatriate footballers in Sweden Expatriate footballers in Finland