Former Nigeria international striker, Yakubu Ayegbeni,
retired from football at the age of 35. Yakubu Aiyegbeni was born in Benin
City, Edo State. A powerful central striker, he started his career with Julius
Berger FC in Lagos 1997 as a teenager in the Nigerian Premier League. He was
later loaned to Portuguese club Gil Vicente, Maccabi Haifa (Israel), then to
Portsmouth (England).
In almost a decade in English football, between January 2003
and June 2012, Yakubu scored 114 times in 293 league appearances, mostly in the
top flight.
He averaged nearly a goal every other game at Portsmouth,
Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester and Blackburn before joining Chinese club
Guangzhou.
He returned to England for short spells at Reading in 2015,
then Coventry City.
Having left Turkish side Kayserispor in 2016, Yakubu was
training with National League side Boreham Wood early last season before being
offered a contract at Coventry in February until the end of the season by then
Sky Blues boss Russell Slade.
But after three substitute appearances under
Slade, he did not figure when Mark Robins returned to the club as manager and
was released in April. As well as his 21
goals in 57 games for his country, the ever popular Yakubu scored 95 Premier
League goals.
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