Julian Ebenezer N. A. Okai (born 26 February 1993) is an English

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who plays as a

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for

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Division One North club Great Wakering Rovers.

Career

He made his debut on 7 November 2009 for

Southend United Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth level of English football. The team are known as "The Shrimpers", a reference ...

in their 3–0 away defeat to Gillingham in the

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, replacing

Francis Laurent Francis Laurent (born 6 January 1986) is a French footballer who last played for FC Chambly. Career Laurent started his career in his native France signing for FC Sochaux where he made twelve appearances in his first season. He took the decision ...

in the 89th minute as a substitute. Okai made a total of 49 appearances and scored 10 goals for Southend's youth team, and 16 appearances in the club's reserve team. It was announced in March 2011, that Okai was not to be offered a new contract at Southend and was to be released at the end of the 2010–11 season. He then went on to sign for

Premier Division club Concord Rangers and then Isthmian League Division One North club Great Wakering Rovers in November 2011. In 2012, he accepted a scholarship at

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to play for the

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References

External links

Southend United profile
* 1993 births Living people Black British sportsmen English men's footballers Southend United F.C. players Concord Rangers F.C. players Great Wakering Rovers F.C. players Isthmian League players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Southend-on-Sea 21st-century English sportsmen {{England-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub