Chinedu Ede (born 5 February 1987) is a German former professional

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who played as a winger.

Career

Ede began his career with Berlin AK 07 and joined later the Reinickendorfer Füchse. In 1998 was scouted by

Hertha BSC Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC () or Hertha Berlin, is a German professional football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football league system, German footbal ...

. He initially played for the youth team, scoring 21 goals in 39 games for the U19, before being promoted to the senior squad on 6 April 2006. He played then two years for the senior side of

. On 21 May 2008, Ede signed a four-year contract until 30 June 2011 with

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. After playing ten matches and scoring two goals in two-and-a-half years, he left Duisburg and returned to

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to sign for

Union Berlin 1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as Union Berlin (), is a professional Football in Germany, German football club based in Berlin. The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweide was fo ...

. On 23 July 2012, he signed a four-year contract with

1. FSV Mainz 05 1. Fußball- und Sport-Verein Mainz 05 e. V., usually shortened to 1. FSV Mainz 05 or simply Mainz 05 (), is a German professional sports club, founded in 1905 and based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 05 play in the Bundesliga, the top tie ...

until 30 June 2016. On 16 August 2014, he signed a one-year loan contract with

Anorthosis Famagusta Anorthosis Famagusta (), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Famagusta multi-sport club founded in 1911 in Varosha, Famagusta.

. Mainz also granted Anorthosis a subsequent purchase option. On 27 August 2015, Edu moved to

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club

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, where he signed a two-year contract until 30 June 2017. After his contract with Twente expired and an extension option was not triggered by the club, he joined

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in Thailand in June 2017. In late 2017, Edu returned to Germany and signed a contract with the

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club

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. There, he eventually retired from football in the summer of 2019.

Personal life

Chinedu has a Nigerian father which made him eligible to play for

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Honours

Germany U21 *

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ede, Chinedu 1987 births Living people Footballers from Berlin German men's footballers German sportspeople of Nigerian descent Germany men's youth international footballers Germany men's under-21 international footballers German expatriate men's footballers Men's association football forwards Füchse Berlin Reinickendorf players Hertha BSC players Hertha BSC II players MSV Duisburg players 1. FC Union Berlin players 1. FSV Mainz 05 players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players Anorthosis Famagusta FC players FC Twente players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Cypriot First Division players Eredivisie players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands 3. Liga players VSG Altglienicke players 21st-century German sportsmen