Eke Uzoma (born 11 August 1989) is a Nigerian-Hungarian professional

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who plays as a

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for Viktoria Berlin.

Career

Uzoma was born in

Owerri Owerri ( , ) is the capital city of Imo State in Nigeria, set in the heart of Igboland. It is also the state's largest city, followed by Orlu, Okigwe and Ohaji/Egbema. Owerri consists of three Local Government Areas including Owerri Municipal, ...

Imo State Imo State ( ig, Ȯra Imo) is a States of Nigeria, state in the South East (Nigeria), South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered to the north by Anambra State, Rivers State to the west and south, and Abia State to the east. It takes its n ...

, Nigeria. He began his professional career with

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg () or just Freiburg, is a German football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bund ...

. His first real impact in the German football world came when he scored a goal against 1. FC Köln on 26 September 2007, in only his fourth match. This goal was voted goal of the week on German football show ''Sportschau'' and was nominated for goal of the month. In 2009, he helped SC Freiburg earn promotion to the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

. On 24 October 2009, he made his first appearance in the Bundesliga for Freiburg and became the 5,000th player in the history of the Bundesliga. On 1 January 2010, he was loaned to

TSV 1860 Munich , commonly known as TSV 1860 München (; lettered as ) or 1860 Munich, is a sports club based in Munich. The club's football team currently plays in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football. 1860 Munich was one of the founding members o ...

and he transferred eventually to 1860 Munich in summer 2010.Eke Uzoma
at Soccerway After playing the first half of the 2015–16 season in the

Serbian SuperLiga The Serbian Super League ( sr, Супер лига Србије / Super liga Srbije), referred to as the Mozzart Bet Super League ( sr, Моцарт Бет Супер лига / Mozzart Bet Super liga) for sponsorship reasons, is a Serbian profes ...

with

FK Spartak Subotica Fudbalski klub Spartak Ždrepčeva Krv () is a professional football club from Subotica, Serbia, that plays in the Serbian SuperLiga. The club was founded in 1945 and was named after Jovan Mikić Spartak, the leader of the Partisans in Subotic ...

, in the winter-break he returned to Germany, this time by signing with

Chemnitzer FC Chemnitzer Fußballclub e.V. is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony. The club competes in Regionalliga Nordost, the fourth tier of German football. The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 193 ...

. Following a season with Hungarian club

Tiszakécske FC Tiszakécske Labdarugó Club is a Hungarian football club from the town of Tiszakécske, Hungary. History Tiszakécske FC debuted in the 1997–98 season of the Hungarian League and finished fifteenth. The relegation play-offs were lost again ...

in the

Nemzeti Bajnokság II NB II, currently known as the Merkantil Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of Hungarian football. At the end of the 2004–05 season, the tournament format was changed from one division of 14 teams to two divisions: ''Keleti ...

, Uzoma moved to

Tennis Borussia Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in the locality of Westend in Berlin. History The team was founded in 1902 as ''Berliner Tennis- und Ping-Pong-Gesellschaft Borussia'' taking its name from its origins as a tennis and t ...

of the

Regionalliga Nordost The Regionalliga Nordost is the fourth tier of German football in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. These comprise the states of former East Germany as well as West Berlin. It i ...

Honors

SC Freiburg * 2. Bundesliga: 2008–09

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* 1989 births Living people Footballers from Owerri Nigerian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders SC Freiburg players TSV 1860 Munich players Arminia Bielefeld players Pécsi MFC players SV Sandhausen players FK Spartak Subotica players Chemnitzer FC players Berliner AK 07 players Balmazújvárosi FC players Budapest Honvéd FC players Tiszakécske FC footballers Tennis Borussia Berlin players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Nemzeti Bajnokság II players Serbian SuperLiga players Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia {{Nigeria-footy-midfielder-stub