Full name Innocent Ufoma Melkam Years Team Position Midfielder Number 24 Height 1.84 m | Playing position Role Footballer Place of birth Lagos, Nigeria Name Innocent Melkam Current team Qingdao Jonoon F.C. | |
Date of birth (1981-05-26) 26 May 1981 (age 34) | ||
Innocent Ufoma Melkam (born 26 May 1981) is a Nigerian retired footballer who played as amidfielder.
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Career
In July 1999, he joined SG Wattenscheid 09, a Regionaliga club in Germany where he played for two years. In 2001, he left for Karlsruher SC reserve Oberliga team and earned 10 caps with the professional Bundesliga 2 team. With the reserve team, he played 76 games and scored 14 goals. In January 2005, he played with SV Langenberg until May 2005 and then moved over to Hammer Spielvereinigung (2005–2007), where he helped them gain promotion into the Oberliga in 2006.
After the 2006–07 season, he moved to China Jia league, but was unfortunate because the club Hohhot Black Horse of Tibet was banned by the Chinese FA for rules violation. He later made a brief switch to Shanghai East FC (Jia league) in February 2008.
Melkam returned to the German league in January 2009 and played a half season for SUS Niederbonsfeld.
Personal life
He was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds both Nigerian and German citizenship.
His elder brother Gabriel Melkam is a left sided midfielder who currently plays for Changchun Yatai in China.