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Ikechukwu Gabriel

Nigerian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ16730033 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ikechukwu Gabriel is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Bayelsa United.

International career

In January 2014, coach Stephen Keshi, invited him to be included in the Nigeria 23-man team for the 2014 African Nations Championship. He helped the team defeat Zimbabwe to a third-place finish by a goal to nil.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ikechukwu Gabriel” as nigerian association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ikechukwu, Gabriel and Nigerian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ikechukwu, Gabriel and Nigerian providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16730033. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ikechukwu Gabriel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.