Joe Nagbe

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Joe Nagbe
Full name	Joe Thunder Armstrong Nagbe
Date of birth	September 2, 1968 (1968-09-02) (age 39)
Place of birth	Nimba County, Liberia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	retired
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1982-1985 1985-1986 1986-1987 1987-1988 1988-1989 1989-1990 1990 1990-1993 1993-1996 1996-1997 1997-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003 2004 2005-2006	Young Survivors Invincible Eleven Mighty Barolle Invincible Eleven Union Douala Stade Vallauris AS Monaco SAS Épinal OGC Nice Lugano PAOK Thessaloniki Panionios PAS Giannina Al-Jazira Club PSIM Yogyakarta PSPS Pekanbaru Persema Malang	09 (1) 00 (0) 064 (14) 096 (17) 019 (0) 077 (10) 09 (0) 012 (0)
National team
1985-2001	Liberia	096 (20)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:42, 08 Dicember 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Joe Thunder Armstrong Nagbe (born September 2, 1968 in Nimba County ) is a Liberian former football midfielder. He has had at least ten years playing in Europe, starting off like George Weah with Monaco then on to Nice. He has been playing in Greece over the last three years. He is instrumental, but is now without a club because of his commitment to the National Team.

1 Personal life
2 Football Career
3 Coach Career
4 External links

[edit] Personal life

Nagbe is married and his two sons are following his footsteps in the United States by playing actively in football.His daughter Martha plays basketball.

[edit] Football Career

Joe Nagbe started his football sojourn with Young Survivor of Clara Town from 1982 to 1985.

He then joined Invincible Eleven (IE) in 1985 and thereafter played between 1986 and 1987 for Mighty Barolle before returning to IE, where he stayed up to 1988 after winning the National League title he has a daughter CUCKOOWUUKOO Nagbe who is ten years old and also wants to play soccer.

Along with fellow Liberian international James Debbah, Nagbe moved to Union Douala of Cameroon for the 1989 to 1990 season. During that period, he played a major role as Liberia almost reached the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy. In the process, the Lone Star eliminated the mighty Ghana Black Star before whipping the Pharaohs of Egypt, Kenya and Malawi in the group stage.

Nagbe and Debbah joined George Weah at AS Monaco for the 1989-90 season after when he found himself at Epinac from 1990 to 1993. The three seasons that followed saw Nagbe at OGC Nice, where he alongside Debbah was successful with a French Cup final win over Giungamp that had another Liberian Christopher Wreh. Nagbe had the opportunity of serving as captain of Nice.

His next transfer led him to Switzerland with Lugano for the season of 1996-97 and afterwards, Greece became the next destination for the Liberian that has played the roles of striker, midfielder and defender during his outstanding career.

Nagbe together with his colleagues made history for the Lone Star when Liberia qualified for her first African Cup of Nations finals in South Africa. Before then, the Lone Star whipped Tunisia, Mauritania and Togo, but drew with Senegal at home.

There was Nagbe at PAOK Salonika for three seasons (1997-2000) and later at Panionios (2000-2001). The next season, he played for Giannana (2001-2002), the period with him as captain when the Lone Star reached another African Nations Cup finals but narrowly missed out on the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan.

His final journey before heading for retirement led Nagbe to Indonesia, where he reunited with dozens of his countrymen. There, he played for PSPS, Persema Malang and PSIM Yogyakarta.

He began playing for the Liberian national team in 1985 and ended in 2001 with 96 caps.

[edit] Coach Career

Upon quitting football, Nagbe traveled to Brazil and now boasts of being a professional soccer coach, recognized by FIFA, CBF, UEFA and other established soccer organizations.