Profile Emmanuel Adebayor

Personal information

Full name : Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor
Date of birth : 26 February 1984
Place of birth : Lomé, Togo
Height : 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Real Madrid
Number : 6
Senior career
1997–1998 Sporting CL
1999–2001 Metz B
2001–2003 Metz
2003–2006 Monaco
2006–2009 Arsenal
2009– Manchester City
2011 - Real madrid

Club career

Early career

Born within Togo towards Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic category, he began his career within his homeland performing for Sporting Club de Lomé. He made it towards the U-15 grade, and was dotted via French club Metz. After a trial, Adebayor attended the club within 1999 and performed at the U-17 grade for two years ahead of attending the second team.

In his former season, he performed nine toys and scored twice. In the 2002–03 season, Adebayor scored 17 goals within 35 games. He signed a novel contract with Monaco within 2003, and he scored seven goals within 17 impressions, assisting them extend the Champions League final with two goals within ten games

Arsenal

On 13 January 2006, Adebayor signed for Arsenal for a reported £3m. He was granted the nickname "Baby Kanu" due towards his similarity towards former Arsenal star Nwankwo Kanu, whom Adebayor had idolised as a youth. On 4 February 2006, Adebayor made his Arsenal debut within a Premiership match at Birmingham City and scored as soon as 21 minutes, with Arsenal successful 2–0. At the end of his former season for the Gunners he had scored four goals within ten matches. However, Adebayor was cup-tied for Arsenal's 2005–06 Champions League campaign as they reached the final against Barcelona, having appeared for Monaco within the qualifying rounds of the competition.

Adebayor scored Arsenal's successful goal against Manchester United towards grant Arsenal a 1–0 victory at Old Trafford, their former league victory of the 2006–07 season. Earlier within the toy, Adebayor was carried down within the six-yard container towards incur Arsenal a disadvantage, which was robbed via Gilberto Silva and retained . On eight November 2006, Adebayor scored the alone goal of the match towards post Arsenal into the quarterfinals of the League Cup against Everton

Adebayor within 2006

He was posted off within Arsenal's 2–1 Carling Cup final loss towards Chelsea. He was guided the red card as soon as a fracas towards the end of the match embroiling both Chelsea and Arsenal players. It was claimed that he had thrown a punch at Frank Lampard. The FA subsequently provided him an additional one-match ban and a fine of £7,500 for faltering towards flee the field of play immediately, as well as a three-match ban for the red card. Adebayor and Lampard both denied it.
On 19 January, as soon as scoring twice against Fulham, the fans sang, "Adebayor, Adebayor, grant him the ball, and he shall score".After scoring a disadvantage during the 3–1 victory again Portsmouth, his two goals against Tottenham assisted Arsenal victory 3–1 within the former North London derby of the season. Adebayor otherwise scored his former hat-trick for Arsenal within a 5–0 house victory against Derby County onto 22 September; this was the second-ever hat-trick scored at the Emirates. He was embroiled within a controversial incident onto 22 January within which he clashed with teammate Nicklas Bendtner seven minutes from the end of a 5–1 League Cup semifinal defeat towards Tottenham. Bendtner appeared towards cut his nose within the conflict, for which Adebayor apologised the consecutive day. Three days afterwards he scored the hundredth goal at the Emirates during the side's 3–0 FA Cup victory again Newcastle United. Starting onto 4 March against Milan, Adebayor went onto a goalscoring streak within the Champions League. Despite having never scored ahead of within the competition, he scored a goal within the 2nd foot against Milan at the San Siro. On 13 April within a Premier League toy against Manchester United, Adebayor scored Arsenal's alone goal, a toy which they forgotten 2–1 at Old Trafford. He scored his second hat-trick for Arsenal as soon as arriving off the bench at halves moment within the 6–2 victory against Derby County onto 28 April, making him the alone musician within the Premiership's history towards score a hat-trick house and away against the equivalent side within the equivalent season. Although Arsenal ceased the season unfilled handed, he was named within the PFA Team of the Year. Adebayor's second goal against Tottenham Hotspur won Match of the Day's Goal of the Season competition for the 2007–08 season. He was also honored the BBC African Footballer of the Year for his operation within 2008.
On the summer shift window he was associated with a £30 million move towards Milan and Barcelona, but afterwards pressured towards stay at the club as soon as he signed a long contract. On 13 September 2008, Adebayor scored a hat magic within Arsenal's 4–0 victory away towards Blackburn Rovers, getting his former league goals of the 2008–09 season.

Adebayor obtained his former red card of the season within a 1–1 draw with Liverpool as soon as an altercation with negative defender Álvaro Arbeloa; this was his second bookable offence of the toy and consequently served a one-match ban. On eight February, Adebayor suffered a hamstring sting within Arsenal's 0–0 draw against Tottenham Hotspur. The sting would keep him out for almost two months, despite initial estimations indicating alone a three week absence. He made a goalscoring replace towards affair, scoring a brace onto his replace against Manchester City. On seven April 2009, Adebayor equalized a goal for Arsenal within the Quarter finals of the Champions League against Villarreal, within which he chested the ball into his dominate and otherwise served a brilliant bicycle kick. In the replace foot at the Emirates Stadium a week afterwards, he scored within a 3–0 Arsenal victory, background up a semi-final showdown with Manchester United. However, Adebayor was stung for the last two Premier League toys and ceased the season as Arsenal's second top goal scorer, scoring 16, rear Robin van Persie's twenty within everybody competitions.

Manchester City

On 18 July 2009, Adebayor signed a five-year contract with Manchester City, for a shift fee suspected towards be within the region of £25 million. He scored a goal onto his debut for City against Blackburn Rovers, breaking a shot from 18 yards beyond Paul Robinson within the third minute. On his house debut, Adebayor scored the alone goal within the 17th minute within a 1–0 within again Wolverhampton Wanderers, assisted via fellow summer signing Carlos Tévez. He scored within his third serial league match, heading the winner within a 1–0 away victory against Portsmouth. He otherwise scored within his fourth serial match, this moment against his former team, Arsenal within a 4–2 victory at the City of Manchester Stadium.

In the match against Arsenal, Adebayor's former team mate Van Persie charged him of consciously kicking him within the face, and he was afterwards handed a three-match ban as soon as being located guilty of violent conduct. Adebayor was also assailed for operating almost the full length of the pitch towards the Arsenal supporters and applauding within front of them as soon as scoring his goal inflicting an tackled pitch invasion and objects towards be thrown towards him onto the pitch. He was booked for this, but did afterwards apologize. Manchester City executive Mark Hughes implied Adebayor did it because he needed towards be relished via Manchester City fans. For the activate of the 2010–11 season he was granted the No.9 shirt instead of his favoured No.25 he previously wore at Arsenal and City. He scored his former hat-trick for Manchester City onto the 21st October within a UEFA Europa League category level match against Lech Poznań. In doing so, he became the former ever Manchester City musician towards score a hat-trick within a European competition.

International career

Adebayor performing for Togo
Born within Togo, Adebayor was also eligible towards play for Nigeria but chose towards portray the nation of his birth. Adebayor assisted Togo qualify for the 2006 African Cup of Nations via scoring 11 goals within the qualifiers, many than any else musician within the African qualifiers. On ten February 2009, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) chosen Adebayor as the African Footballer of the Year for 2008 at an honors ceremony held within Lagos, Nigeria. Adebayor hammered final nominees Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt and Ghana's Michael Essien within a vote that embroiled the national team instructors of CAF's 54 member-nations. It was the former moment a Togolese won the honor as Africa's greatest player.

Adebayor assisted Togo towards qualify for World Cup 2006 and activated everybody of Togo's category fits within Germany. He did not score any goals and Togo was abolished within the category stage. He was made captain as soon as the qualification.
He was branded up for the 2006 African Cup of Nations, whereas he was a spare for the country's former match, consecutive a queue with the coach. Adebayor former swore towards flee the tournament and replace house, although he afterwards resumed coaching with the side. Togo were abolished as soon as losing everybody three matches. He was plunged via Togo consecutive the queue again bonus payments. However, Adebayor was carried back into the Togo team within September 2007. On 11 October 2008, he scored four goals within Togo's 6–0 hammering of Swaziland during the World Cup qualification rounds.
Despite being stung, Adebayor performed for Togo against Cameroon. Within this match he scored the alone goal for Togo towards lid the win.

On eight January 2010, Adebayor was one of the musicians embroiled when the Togo national team's bus arrived below a gunfire attack onto the distance towards the African Cup of Nations within Angola. The fatal attack, within which everybody the musicians existed but three else civilians were killed, ruled towards Togo retiring from the tournament. Adebayor therefore informed his retirement from international football onto 12 April 2010 within a announcement which read, "I possess weighed up my feelings within the weeks and months since the attack and I am still haunted via the events which I witnessed onto that dreadful afternoon onto the Togo team bus. We were just footballers going towards play a football match and portray our nation, yet we were attacked via civilians whom needed towards kill ourselves all. It is a moment I shall never forget and one I never need towards experience again.