Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam (born 13 March 1980) is a Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player from Umueri in Anambra State

Anambra State

Anambra is a state in south-eastern Nigeria. Its name is an anglicized version of the original 'Oma Mbala', the native name of the Anambra River. The Capital and the Seat of Government is Awka. Onitsha and Nnewi are the biggest commercial and industrial cities, respectively. The state's theme is...

. He currently plays for Qingdao Jonoon in the Chinese Super League

Chinese Super League

The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...

. His brother Innocent Melkam

Innocent Melkam

Innocent Ufoma Melkam is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for SuS Niederbonsfeld in Germany.- Career :In July 1999 he joined SG Wattenscheid 09, a Regionaliga club in Germany where he played for 2 years. In 2001 he left for Karlsruher SC reserve Oberliga team and earned 10 caps with the...

 (a right sided midfielder) played soccer in Nigeria and now plays in the German League.

Football career

In April 2007 he was banned 3 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

Henan Jianye

Henan Construction is a Chinese professional association football club based in Zhengzhou , in the province of Henan , China. The clubs predecessor was the Henan Provincial Team who were founded in 1958 while the current professional football team was established on August 27, 1994...

, to revenge the serious mistake of referee on the match Xiamen Lanshi

Xiamen Lanshi

Xiamen Lanshi is a defunct Chinese football club, which was located in Xiamen, Fujian. They were founded in the 1996 league season and their nickname was the "Blue Lions" while they played in the Xiamen Stadium. Throughout their history they would twice win promotion to the top tier of Chinese...

 against Shanghai Shenhua

Shanghai Shenhua

Shanghai Shenhua is a professional Chinese football club currently playing in Chinese Super League. The club is currently owned by Zhu Jun , Shanghai SVA Group, SMEG and Huangpu Investment Ltd. . The current head coach is Dražen Besek...

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

Beijing Institute of Technology FC

Beijing Institute of Technology Football Club is a Chinese football club based in Haidian, Beijing. The Club was found in 2000 and currently owned by the Beijing Institute of Technology . All the players, including few foreign students, are full-time students at the BIT...

 on 3 April.

International career

He finished runner up at the 1999 African Youth Championship

African Youth Championship

The African Youth Championship is the main international youth football competition for CAF nations, and is competed for by under 20 year olds...

 and quarter-finalist at 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

1999 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Nigeria between April 3 and April 24, 1999. The 1999 championship was the 12th contested.- Qualification :The following 24 teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.-Squads:...

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Gabriel Melkam was included in the Nigerian squad for the 2006 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.

External links

• nigerianplayers.com
• http://bul.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/gabriel-melkam/ Player profile at worldfootball.net