Former captain of the senior national team of Nigeria Ogenyi Onazi has joined Bahrain outfit East Riffa Football Club, the club has announced.
Onazi spent the first half of the season at Italian Serie D side Casertana, where he made 11 appearances but will now leave the club on a free transfer for East Riffa Football Club just one year after his free transfer from Al Aldalah of Saudi Arabia.
It’s another step in his bid to relaunch his once fledgling career that saw him rise to the rank of deputy captain of the senior national team of Nigeria for three years. However since 2017 when he left Trabzonspor he hasn’t had the best of times at club level.
His next club after he left Trabzonspor was another Turkish side in Denizlispor but he left six months into his stay at the club and joined Danish side SönderjyskE. One year later he moved to Lithuania where he defended the colours of FK Zalgiris Vilnius.
He returned to Denizlispor but had to leave after a few months following the mutual termination of his contract. A move to Saudi Arabia’s second division side Al Aldalah was next before he returned to Italy, where he started his professional journey with Serie A side Lazio but this time around he joined Casertana in Serie D.
