Edafe Egbedi (born 5 August 1993) is a Nigerian
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 lea ...
who plays for
IFK Malmö. He is notably a right-footed winger.
Career
At national team level, he played for Nigeria at the
2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, scoring the decisive goal when Nigeria beat England 1-0 in the
Round of 16
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...
, to reach the Quarter-final stage. He also played seven games for Nigeria at the
2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup
The 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the thirteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup held in Nigeria from 24 October to 15 November 2009.
Switzerland national under-17 football team, Switzerland won the tournament, beating the host team and holde ...
, helping his team all the way to the Final.
On 28 August 2014 Egbedi was loaned out from AGF to
Skive IK for the remaining of 2014.
Egbedi chose to terminate its contract with AGF in January 2015
He played for
Landskrona BoIS in the
Swedish Division 1 and
Superettan
Superettan (; ) is an association football league and the second highest league in the Swedish football league system, league system of Swedish football, Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and rel ...
between 2017 and 2018.
References
External links
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official AGF profileOfficial Danish Superliga player statistics
at danskfodbold.com
"Edafe Egbedi klar för Prespa Birlik" at KSP Prespa Birlik
1993 births
Living people
Nigerian men's footballers
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Aarhus Gymnastikforening players
Landskrona BoIS players
Skive IK players
KSF Prespa Birlik players
Norrby IF players
IFK Malmö Fotboll players
Danish Superliga players
Danish 1st Division players
Superettan players
Ettan Fotboll players
Nigeria men's under-20 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
21st-century Nigerian sportsmen
Österlen FF players
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