Oguchi Onyewu is one of the prominent names in the world of soccer. Currently, he has retired from his professional career. He last played for Charlton Athletic during the 2014-15 seasons. Throughout his professional career from 2002 to 2015, he has played for the clubs in France, England, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal. He played the majority of his career with Standard Liege. Oguchi Onyewu played as a centre back for his team. He was very good in his game when he was in the field. He had a great defending, heading, passing and throwing ability. He was able to score a goal from distance. Oguchi Onyewu was born as Oguchi Chijioke Onyewu. He was born on May 13, 1982, and this makes his age 34 at this moment. His place of birth was Washington D.C, United States. He is an American by his nationality. He is of Nigerian descent His birth sign is Pisces. He is not the single child of his parents. He grew up among his four siblings.
Oguchi Onyewu grew up in his birthplace. He attended St. Andrew Apostle School and Sherwood High School. Later on, he played two years of college soccer at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Oguchi Onyewu started his senior career with Metz. While playing to Metz, he loaned to La Louviere. As everyone has a failure story and success story, his success story started when he began his career with Standard Liege. He played the majority of his career with Standard Liege. He scored 11 goals in 139 apps with Standard Liege. While playing with Liege, he also played as a loanee to New Castle. From 2004 to 2014, he was in the national team of United States.
Oguchi Onyewu has been the part of racism controversy. In 2008-09 Championship playoff, Jelle Van Damme, according to Onyewu, called him a dirty ape but however he relayed the info to referees. Van Damme denied the allegation and repeated he was called dirty Flemish by him. Two weeks later, Oguchi Onyewu lawyer suedg against Van Damme in an attempt to end on-field racism in European football. On Feb 2011, the case was withdrawn after a meeting between two players. Later on, Van Damme apologized.
Oguchi Onyewu was born to Nigerian parents. He has two brothers and two sisters named Uchi, Nonye, Chichi and Ogechi. He also holds the citizenship of Belgium. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Portuguese. He is a catholic. He is a married man. His wife is Salome Khorasanchi.
Oguchi Onyewu is very tall man. He has an athletic body. He looks sexy when he appears shirtless. He has a height of 6 feet and 4 inch. His salary is outstanding. He has revealed his net worth among his fans. His estimated net worth is around 15 million USD. He is popular on social networking sites. One can follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
