Lucky Isibor
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Anthony Joseph Isibor | ||
| Date of birth | 1 January 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Benin City, Nigeria | ||
| Date of death | 24 June 2013 (aged 36) | ||
| Place of death | Lagos, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) |
Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995 | Concord FC (Nigeria) | ||
| 1995–1996 | Bellinzona | ||
| 1996–1997 |
Luka Koper | 12 | (2) |
| 1997–1998 | Enosis | 17 | (4) |
| 1998–2000 |
Reggiana | 4 | (0) |
| 1998 | → Dynamo Moscow (loan) | 27 | (4) |
| 1999–2000 | → Dynamo Moscow (loan) | 24 | (1) |
| 2000 | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | 5 | (1) |
| 2002–2003 | Zürich | 0 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Anthony Joseph "Lucky" Isibor (1 January 1977 – 24 June 2013) was a Nigerian professional footballer.[1]
Career
He was playing with Nigerian Concord FC when he moved to Switzerland in 1995 signing with
K-League club Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Swiss FC Zürich. FC Zürich refused to honour his contract after they discovered he was HIV-positive. Swiss court eventually ruled that the club must pay him 315,000 Swiss francs as his HIV status was not deemed in itself a valid reason to dissolve the contract.[4]
According to a 2004 interview with a fellow Nigerian footballer
AIDS[5] and according to some later reports, he died on 8 January 2006. However, according to former Isibor's teammate Aleksandr Tochilin, another former Dynamo player Patrick Ovie met Isibor in Nigeria after his supposed death and Isibor was healthy and well.[6] He died on 24 June 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria, after a brief illness.[7]
Honours
- Russian Cup finalist: 1999.
References
- ^ dbFCZ | Lucky Isibor
- ^ Stats from Slovenia at PrvaLiga.
- ^ Lucky Isibor at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- ^ "HIV-positive striker fired unjustly - FCZ has to pay 315 000 francs!" (in German). Blick. 11 November 2013.
- ^ БЫВШИЙ ФУТБОЛИСТ МОСКОВСКОГО "ДИНАМО" ЛАКИ ИЗИБОР БОЛЕН СПИДом, А НА ПРЕЗИДЕНТА ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО "ПСЖ" СОВЕРШЕНО РАЗБОЙНОЕ НАПАДЕНИЕ
- ^ Александр ТОЧИЛИН: ВОР ОТ МЕНЯ УШЕЛ НАРЯДНЫМ (in Russian). FC Dynamo Moscow. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
- ^ Punch: Ex-junior international, Isibor, to be buried on Friday Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Lucky Isibor – K League stats at kleague.com (in Korean)