Onyeka Lucky Osemene (born 18 June 1995) is a Nigerian

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player who plays for Portuguese club

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as a

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. In a career spent mostly in Portugal, he played 29 games and scored three goals in the second tier with Braga B and

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(two spells), but spent most of his seasons at a lower level. He also played briefly in the Albanian

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with

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in 2017.

Club career

Lucky played in the youth ranks of

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before starting his senior career in Portugal's third tier with S.C. Salgueiros and G.D. Ribeirão. He made his professional debut in the Segunda Liga for S.C. Braga B on 8 August 2015 in a 2–2 draw at G.D. Chaves, as a 73rd-minute substitute for Carlos Fortes. After a loan in the third tier at C.D. Trofense, Lucky returned to the second level on 9 January 2017 by signing for Filipe Gouveia's

S.C. Covilhã Sporting Clube da Covilhã, commonly known as just Sporting da Covilhã or Sp. Covilhã, is a Portuguese association football, football club from the city of Covilhã that plays in the third-tier Liga 3 (Portugal), Liga 3. The club was founded on ...

. On his debut five days later, he came on at half time for defender Zé Pedro and scored his first professional goal to equalise in a 3–2 home loss to F.C. Penafiel. After a brief spell at

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in the Albanian

, he returned to Covilhã in January 2018, and rescinded his contract a year later. On 23 January 2019, Lucky signed for U.D. Leiria in the third-tier Campeonato de Portugal. Thirteen months later, he terminated his deal due to alleged unpaid wages and signed for CF Canelas 2010 in the same league. The team won promotion to the new Liga 3 in

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, where he scored a career-best eight goals in 21 games in his first season, prompting a move to

in July 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucky, Onyeka 1995 births Living people Nigerian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players S.C. Salgueiros players G.D. Ribeirão players S.C. Braga B players C.D. Trofense players S.C. Covilhã players U.D. Leiria players Varzim S.C. players Kategoria Superiore players KF Teuta players Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Albania Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Albania 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen