Isah Umoru Akor is a Nigerian professional
footballer, who plays as a
striker
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for Nigerian side
MFM F.C.
Club career
Akor started his career in his homeland of Nigeria with
Prime F.C.
Osun United Football Club is a Nigerian football club, in the town of Osogbo, in Osun State.The club is also nicknamed Omoluabi Giants.
History
Prime FC was founded 1996 by authorities of Osogbo Local Government and play its home games in th ...
, where he scored seven goals in six games during the 2012
Federation Cup. In 2012, he signed for
Heartland in the
Nigeria Premier League. where he continued his prolific goal-scoring form. He moved to
Portuguese side
U.D. Leiria in 2014, after unsuccessful trials at
Norwegian side
Stabæk and
Polish club
Wisła Kraków. He made his debut for Os Lis in a 2-1 loss to
Sertanense. He made 7 appearances in his time there, all in the
Campeonato de Portugal.
In 2016, Akor returned to
Nigeria with
MFM F.C., where he vowed he would not celebrate if he scored against former side
Heartland.
International career
Although never called up to the full
Nigerian national football team
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, Akor was called up for the preliminary
Nigeria national beach soccer team
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Competitive record World Cup record
Afr ...
, but did not compete at the
2013 African Beach Soccer Championship for personal reasons. He also represented a Nigeria XI that competed at the
2014 Expo Unity World Cup
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in
Goa.
References
External links
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Living people
Nigerian men's footballers
U.D. Leiria players
1991 births
Men's association football forwards