Gabriel Melkam

Gabriel Melkam
	Melkam playing for Xiamen Lanshi in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam
Date of birth	13 March 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Lagos, Nigeria
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Left back, midfielder
Youth career
0000–1996	Stationery Stores
Senior career*
Years	Team
1996–1998	Kwara United
1998–2001	SG Wattenscheid 09
2001–2003	Karlsruher SC
2003–2005	Hansa Rostock
2005–2006	Sportfreunde Siegen
2006–2007	Xiamen Lanshi
2008–2009	Changchun Yatai
2010	Guangzhou Evergrande
2011–2013	Qingdao Jonoon
Total
International career
1999	Nigeria U-20
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gabriel Chukwuwunzo Melkam (born 13 March 1980) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a left back or midfielder.

Club career

In April 2007, Melkam was banned three 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, to revenge the serious mistake of referee on the match Xiamen Lanshi against Shanghai Shenhua.

Melkam transferred to Guangzhou Evergrande in 2010.^[1] He made his China League One debut for Guangzhou against Beijing BIT on 3 April.

International career

Melkam finished runner-up at the 1999 African Youth Championship and quarter-finalist at 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. Melkam was included in the Nigerian squad for the 2006 FIFA 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.