Precious Monye Onyabor (born 22 December 1974) is a

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n retired footballer.

Career

Monye signed with Italian side Reggiana 1919, and was loaned out to second division side Cosenza Calcio and Hungarian side Videoton, where he became the club's first ever black player. He was also loaned out to

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, winning a league title with them in 1997–98. He returned to Nigeria to get treatment for an injury before joining UTA Arad in Romania for a season. He then returned to Hungary in 2002 to rejoin Videoton. From there, he signed for Maltese team Birkirkara in January 2004, where he spent four seasons. He switched to

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in 2007, where he played for another year.

International career

At the youth level he played in the

1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship The 1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship, the third edition of the tournament, was held in the Scottish cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Motherwell, Aberdeen, and Dundee between 10 and 24 June 1989. Players born after 1 August 1972 could participate in ...

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and the

1991 All-Africa Games The 5th All-Africa Games (), also known as Cairo 1991 (), were held from September 20 to October 1, 1991, in Cairo, Egypt. Forty-three countries participated in eighteen sports. For the first time the Games were held on a four-year cycle as plan ...

, where he won a bronze medal with the national under-23 team. His senior international debut came against

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on 16 August 1992 during 1994 African Cup of Nations qualification. He also played in

1994 FIFA World Cup qualification The 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. The 1994 FIFA World Cup featured 24 teams with one place reserved for the host nation, United States, and one place for the defending cham ...

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* Living people 1974 births Nigerian men's footballers Nigeria men's international footballers Nigeria men's under-20 international footballers Nigeria men's youth international footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders Enyimba F.C. players Stationery Stores F.C. players Sharks F.C. players Fehérvár FC players Cosenza Calcio players Újpest FC players AC Reggiana 1919 players FC UTA Arad players Birkirkara F.C. players Hamrun Spartans F.C. players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Serie B players Maltese Premier League players Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Malta Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Malta Medalists at the 1991 All-Africa Games African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria African Games bronze medalists in football {{Nigeria-footy-midfielder-stub