Ugochukwu Christus Iwu ( hy, Ուգոչուկվու Քրիստուս Իվու; born 28 November 1999) is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

defensive midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (russian: Футбо́льный клуб Руби́н Каза́нь, ''Futbolny klub Rubin Kazan'' , Tatar: Рубин Казан) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the second-tier ...

. Born in Nigeria, he represents the Armenia national team.

Club career

In August 2019, Iwu joined Pyunik on a season-long loan deal from Lori.

Urartu

In the summer 2020, Iwu moved to the

Urartu Urartu (; Assyrian: ',Eberhard Schrader, ''The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament'' (1885), p. 65. Babylonian: ''Urashtu'', he, אֲרָרָט ''Ararat'') is a geographical region and Iron Age kingdom also known as the Kingdom of Va ...

. On 16 July 2023, Iwu left Urartu by mutual consent to join

Rubin Kazan

On 16 July 2023,

announced the singing of Iwu to a three-year contract.

International career

Iwu made his international debut for

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

on 25 March 2023 in the

UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament is an upcoming Association football, football competition that will be played from March 2023 to March 2024 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams that will join the automatically qualified ...

, against

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. He played for the entire match.

Personal life

On 20 March 2023, Ugochukwu Iwu received Armenian citizenship, which made him available to play for the Armenia national team.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Urartu *

Armenian Premier League The Armenian Premier League ( hy, VBET Հայաստանի Պրեմիեր Լիգա, known as the VBET Armenian Premier League for sponsorship reasons) is the top association football, football competition in Armenia. From 1936 to 1991, the compet ...

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen b ...

Armenian Cup The VBET Armenian Cup ( hy, Հայաստանի Անկախության Գավաթ) is the main football cup competition of Armenia. In its original form as the Armenian Cup, it started in 1939, when Armenia was a republic of the Soviet Union. It s ...

References

External links

FC Urartu official club profile
* * 1999 births Living people Footballers from Jos Naturalized citizens of Armenia Armenian men's footballers Armenia men's international footballers Nigerian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Lori FC players FC Pyunik players FC Urartu players FC Rubin Kazan players Armenian Premier League players Russian Premier League players Nigerian emigrants to Armenia Naturalised association football players Armenian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Armenian expatriate sportspeople in Russia {{Armenia-footy-bio-stub