{{short description|Nigerian footballer (born 1980)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Kingsley Amuneke | image = | caption = | fullname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|7|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Eziobodo, Nigeria | height = 1.75 m | position = Centre-back | currentclub = | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = Julius Berger | years1 = 1996–2000 | clubs1 = Eendracht Aalst | caps1 = 16 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 1999–2000 | clubs2 = → Denderhoutem (loan) | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 2000–2002 | clubs3 = Denderhoutem | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 2002–2003 | clubs4 = Fornos de Algodres | caps4 = | goals4 = | years5 = 2003–2004 | clubs5 = Mangualde | caps5 = | goals5 = | years6 = 2004–2006 | clubs6 = Landskrona BoIS | caps6 = 11 | goals6 = 0 | years7 = 2007 | clubs7 = IFK Värnamo | caps7 = | goals7 = | years8 = 2008–2010 | clubs8 = Asmundtorps IF | caps8 = | goals8 = | years9 = 2011 | clubs9 = 07 Vestur | caps9 = 14 | goals9 = 0 }} '''Kingsley Amuneke'''{{Audio|LL-Q33578_(ibo)-Goodymeraj-Kingsley_Amuneke.wav|Listen|help=no}} (born 26 July 1980) Nigerian former footballer who played as a centre-back.
==Football career== Born in Eziobodo, Amuneke played professionally for two clubs in Belgium and for Landskrona BoIS in the Swedish Allsvenskan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?CTID=57&CPID=120&TEID=1403&PLID=44218&pStr=Player |title=Kingsley Amuneke facts |publisher=The Guardian |access-date=23 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914030231/http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?CTID=57&CPID=120&TEID=1403&PLID=44218&pStr=Player |archive-date=14 September 2012 }}</ref> He is the younger brother of Emmanuel Amunike, and the older sibling of another footballer, Kevin Amuneke;<ref>{{cite book |last=Scott|first=Carl-Gustaf|date=16 September 2015|title=African Footballers in Sweden: Race, Immigration, and Integration in the Age of Globalization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGreCgAAQBAJ&q=emmanuel+kingsley+kevin+Amuneke+brother&pg=PA2011-IA29|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-1375-3509-2}}</ref> all three spent some time playing in Portugal.
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==External links== *{{Soccerway|kingsley-amunike/198203}}
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