Manasseh Ishiaku (born 9 January 1983) is a Nigerian former 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 lea ...

who played as a striker. While at

La Louvière La Louvière (; ) is a city and Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Boussoit, Haine-Saint-Paul, Haine-Saint-Pie ...

he helped them win the

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, scoring twice in the final. Four years later he scored the winning goal in the final of the same competition, this time for

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...

Honours

La Louvière *

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: 2002–03 Club Brugge *

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: 2006–07

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* * * 1983 births Living people Footballers from Port Harcourt Nigerian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Shooting Stars S.C. players New South Wales Institute of Sport alumni K.S.V. Roeselare players R.A.A. Louviéroise players Club Brugge KV players MSV Duisburg players 1. FC Köln players Sint-Truidense V.V. players Belgian Pro League players Bundesliga players Nigeria men's international footballers Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Australia Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Germany 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen {{RiversState-sport-bio-stub