{{Short description|Nigerian footballer (born 1988)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox football biography |name = Odion Obadin |fullname = Odion Anthony Obadin |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|12|6|df=y}}<ref name="soccer">{{Soccerway}}</ref> |birth_place = Lagos, Nigeria |height = 1.86 m<ref name="soccer"/> |position = Centre-back |currentclub = IL Flint |clubnumber = 3<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotball.no/fotballdata/kamp/?fiksId=6656493|title = Eik Tønsberg - Flint - 14.10.2017 14.00}}</ref> |years1 = 2006–2007 |clubs1 = Heart of Lions F.C. |years2 = 2007–2008 |clubs2 = Dragons de l'Oueme |years3 = 2008–2009 |clubs3 = Gombak United FC |years4 = 2010–2012 |clubs4 = Phnom Penh Crown FC |years5 = 2013–2016 |clubs5 = Phnom Penh Crown FC |years6 = 2016 |clubs6 = CMAC FC<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.talkmewo.tv/3074/crown-set-to-welcome-bisan-george-back-as-cmac-snaps-up-obadin.html |title=Talkmewo.tv |access-date=1 January 2018 |archive-date=23 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323001225/http://www.talkmewo.tv/3074/crown-set-to-welcome-bisan-george-back-as-cmac-snaps-up-obadin.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> |years7 = 2017–2020 |clubs7 = IL Flint }}
'''Odion Obadin''' (6 December 1988) is a former Nigerian footballer who last played for IL Flint. He is a part of the Hausa people.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/fighting-drugs-football-nigerians-tackle-prejudice| title = Fighting drugs with football: Nigerians tackle prejudice {{!}} Phnom Penh Post}}</ref>
==Career== Obadin was born in Lagos, Nigeria.
===Singapore=== Coming to Gombak United of the Singapore S.League in 2008 on the recommendations of older brother Obadin Aikhena, Obadin was part of the Gombak squad that won the 2008 Singapore League Cup.<ref name="fourfourtwo">{{cite web |url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/sg/features/gombaks-2008-league-cup-winners-where-are-they-now?page=0%2C2 |title=Gombak's 2008 League Cup winners: Where Are They Now? {{!}} FourFourTwo |website=www.fourfourtwo.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323092253/https://www.fourfourtwo.com/sg/features/gombaks-2008-league-cup-winners-where-are-they-now?page=0%2C2 |archive-date=23 March 2018}}</ref>
===Cambodia=== Unveiled as one of 2010 Cambodian League winners Phnom Penh Crown's new signings in November 2010,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.phnompenhpost.com/sport/crown-unveil-new-jewels|title = Crown unveil new jewels}}</ref> Obadin registered his first goal of the 2011 season in a 5–3 win over Chhlam Samuth,{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} before leaving in late 2012 along with Henry Asonibe, Emmanuel Frimpong, and Kingsley Njoku.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} After looking for a club in Myanmar, he re-joined Phnom Penh Crown in early 2013,{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} helping them to a third-place finish at the 2014 Mekong Club Championship among other honors which strengthened his unimpeachable status as team captain.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wearefootball.com.kh/2015/12/30/8744 |title=ខ្សែ ការពារ Odion Obadin ជា កីឡាករ ដែល លេង ក្លិប ភ្នំពេញក្រោន យូរជាង គេ ក្នុង ពេល បច្ចុប្បន្ន | We Are Football |website=wearefootball.com.kh |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231215849/http://wearefootball.com.kh/2015/12/30/8744 |archive-date=31 December 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2012, the Nigerian defender was refused entry into China on the way to Tajikistan to represent Phnom Penh Crown in that year's AFC President's Cup.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
===Norway=== Trialling for Ullensaker/Kisa IL in 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.eub.no/sport/ble-ikke-overbevist|title = Ble ikke overbevist|date = 5 February 2016|access-date = 1 January 2018|archive-date = 4 April 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160404024158/http://www.eub.no/sport/ble-ikke-overbevist|url-status = dead}}</ref> Obadin moved to IL Flint in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://keiladaily.com/index.php?views=detail_news&id_article=5279|title = កីឡាដេលី | Keila Daily - the Leading Sports News Web in Cambodia}}</ref>
==Honors== '''Singapore''' * Singapore League Cup: 2008<ref name="fourfourtwo"/>
'''Cambodia''' * Cambodian League: 2011, 2014, 2015{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Soccerway|anthony-obadin-odion/191347}}
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