Onyekachi Okafor (born 2 June 1994, in Aba) is a Nigerian

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who plays as a

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for Küçük Kaymaklı Türk S.K. in Cyprus.

Career

Okafor began his football youth career at

Enyimba International F.C. Enyimba Football Club or simply known as Enyimba, is a Nigerian football club based in the city of Aba which plays in the Nigerian Professional Football League. Their name means ''People's Elephant'' in Igbo language and is also the nickname us ...

and professional career with

Crown F.C. Crown FC is a Nigerian professional association football club based in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, that competes in the Nigeria National League. The club plays at the Lekan Salami Stadium, with a capacity of 10,000. For the 2010–11 season they played ...

before moved to Warri Wolves in 2014. He played two seasons at

Rivers United Rivers United Football Club is a professional football club based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State that participates in the Nigerian Professional Football League, the highest level of domestic Nigerian football. The club was formed by the merger ...

before he moved to Turkey to play for

Giresunspor Giresunspor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Giresun. It was founded in 1925 and re-formed in 1967 after the merger of Yeşiltepespor, Akıngençlikspor, and Beşiktaşspor. The football club is playing in the Turkish S ...

in 2014. In August 2016, he signed at

TFF First League The TFF 1. Lig, officially known as Spor Toto 1. Lig for sponsorship reasons, is the second level of the Turkish football league system. The league was founded in 2001 as the ''Turkish Second League Category A'' after the reorganization of the ...

. In the summer of 2017, he joined Yalova SK. He later joined

Doğan Türk Birliği Doğan Türk Birliği is a sports club based in Girne, Northern Cyprus and first established in 1938 in Limassol. History Its colours are yellow and navy. They were champions in the Birinci Lig competition on six occasions. They are now pa ...

in the winter of 2018.

International appearances

He was called up to the senior team for the first time in March 2015 for a friendly against the Cranes of Uganda and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana.

References

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