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Ikechi Anya (born 3 January 1988) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for English club Watford and the Scotland national team. Anya has previously played for Wycombe Wanderers and Northampton Town, as well as Spanish sides Celta de Vigo, Sevilla Atlético and Granada. Eligible to also represent Romania, Nigeria or England internationally, he chose to play for the country of his birth, Scotland. He received his first cap for the Scottish national team on 6 September 2013, coming off the bench in a 2-0 defeat to Belgium and scored his first international goal four days later in Scotland's following match away to Macedonia. == Early life == Anya's father is a Nigerian research scientist of the Igbo ethnic group and his mother a Romanian economist. The couple met while studying in Bucharest. After finishing their studies, his parents moved to Scotland in the late 1980s for his father to obtain his doctorate in metallurgy. Anya was born in Glasgow, Scotland and spent his early childhood in the Castlemilk area. His mother, Mariena, states that as a boy Anya "was kicking a ball in front of the house where he grew up in Glasgow from morning till night as a very young boy." The family moved to Oxford when he was seven years old after his father got a job at the University of Oxford. Anya maintained his fondness for Scotland, stating that whenever Scotland played England he would cheer "Come on Scotland".〔 His older brother, Chima, is a medical doctor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ikechi Anya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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