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Stephen Makinwa
Personal information
Full name	Stephen Ayodele Makinwa
Date of birth	July 26, 1983 (1983-07-26) (age 24)
Place of birth	Lagos, Nigeria
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Reggina
Number	19
Youth clubs
?-2000	FC Ebedei
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2008	Reggiana Conegliano (loan) Como (co-ownership) Reggiana Genoa Como (loan) Modena (loan) Genoa Atalanta (co-ownership) Palermo Lazio (co-ownership) Reggina (loan)	8 (2) 0 (0) 29 (6) 21 (6) 17 (1) 18 (6) 17 (6) 23 (5) 25 (3) 9 (0)
National team2
2004-2008	Nigeria	15 (2)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 25, 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 2005. * Appearances (Goals)

Stephen Ayodele Makinwa (born 26 July 1983 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian football striker, who currently plays for Italian Serie A side Lazio and Nigeria. He is the brother of the unattached Henry Makinwa. His name, Ayodele, means "Joy has come home".^[1]

Discovered in 2000 by Reggiana while playing for Nigerian local side FC Ebedei, Makinwa started his Italian football experience moving on loan to Serie D team Conegliano. In 2001 he moved to Serie B team Como squad, as Como bought 50% of the rights to the player, however, Makinwa did not play any games for the team. In 2002 he was back to Reggiana, in Serie C1, but the following season he was again in Como, but now as a regular. Como bought the remainder of the 50% ownership rights from Reggiana and sold him to Genoa in 2003. In January 2004 Makinwa was loaned to Modena and made his debut in Serie A. During the 2005 summer market, despite rumours of interest in the player from Inter Milan, Makinwa joined Palermo in a €7.5m bid. He then went to S.S. Lazio in summer 2006, in co-ownership for €3.3m, being reunited with Delio Rossi, his former coach at Atalanta. In summer 2007, he was fully contracted by Lazio, by a blind auction between the two clubs. Currently Makinwa is on loan at Reggina.

Both Makinwa and his friend and national team mate Obafemi Martins, are known for celebrating goals by making several consecutive somersaults.

Makinwa also played for Nigeria in the 2006 African Cup of Nations and won the bronze medal which is the 3rd place].

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[edit] External links

• nigerianplayers.com

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Persondata
NAME	Makinwa, Stephen Ayodele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Makinwa, Stephen
SHORT DESCRIPTION	footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	1983-7-26
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lagos , Nigeria
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH