Samuel Okeremute Sodje (born 25 May 1979) is an English-born Nigerian footballer who plays as a defender for Charlton Athletic. Sodje also represents Nigeria at international level.
Sodje has three brothers (Efe, Steve, and Akpo), as well as a nephew, Onome, also playing football in England. A fourth brother, Bright, used to play rugby league.
Sodje was born in Greenwich, London and joined Margate at the beginning of the 2002–03 season and scored...
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Samuel Okeremute Sodje (born 25 May 1979) is an English-born Nigerian footballer who plays as a defender for Charlton Athletic. Sodje also represents Nigeria at international level.
Sodje has three brothers (Efe, Steve, and Akpo), as well as a nephew, Onome, also playing football in England. A fourth brother, Bright, used to play rugby league.
Sodje was born in Greenwich, London and joined Margate at the beginning of the 2002–03 season and scored on his debut with a header. He quickly established himself as a huge favourite with the supporters and won the Supporters' Player of the Year award at the end of his first season with Margate. In his second game he scored a header again, this time sadly it was in the wrong end as he scored an own-goal against Kettering Town.
In the summer of 2003, he went on trial at Yeovil Town and Chester City, but neither team signed him. He returned to Margate to play Conference football for the 2003–04 season and impressed once again.
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