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Place of birth
  
Lagos, Nigeria

Name
  
Gabriel Melkam

Role
  
Football player


0000–1996
  
Stationery Stores

Height
  
1.82 m

Years
  
Team

Position
  
Defender, Midfielder

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Full name
  
Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam

Date of birth
  
(1980-03-13) 13 March 1980 (age 35)

Playing position
  
Left back, Midfielder

Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam (born 13 March 1980) is a Nigerian retired football player.

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Football career

In April 2007, Melkam was banned three matches and fined 5000 RMB for misconduct for showing "All Referee of Chinese Super League were cheat." on his T-shirt after the match against Henan Jianye, to revenge the serious mistake of referee on the match Xiamen Lanshi against Shanghai Shenhua.

Melkam transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande in 2010. He made his China League One debut for Guangzhou against Beijing BIT on 3 April.

International career

Melkam finished runner-up at the 1999 African Youth Championship and quarter-finalist at 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. Melkam was included in the Nigerian squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe on 5 September. The tie marked the debut of the then-Hansa Rostock defender Melkam, who narrowly missed out on a place in Nigeria's 2004 Cup of Nations squad.

Club

Guangzhou Evergrande

  • China League One: 2010
  • Personal life

    Melkam's younger brother Innocent Melkam played football in the German lower leagues.

    References

    Gabriel Melkam Wikipedia