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 profile

Official 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 {{Nigeria-footy-midfielder-stub