nationalcaps birth_date currentclub pcupdate years caps goals image_size nationalyears image name fullname ntupdate birth_place nationalteam height clubnumber nationalgoals clubs position article_title
1 2 10 25 july 1978 ajka 2014-06-01 1998 2003 2003 -- 2005 2005 -- 2006 2006 -- 2007 -- 2007 -- 2009 2009 -- 2010 2010 -- 2011 2011 2001 -- 2012 2013 -- 2001 -- 2002 2002 2002 -- 0 42 7 28 56 84 34 0 11 31 24 5 46 0 15 1 4 18 22 5 0 1 7 4 0 5 250px 1996 -- 1997 1996 -- 1999 1999 -- 2006 thomas sowunmi 2.jpg thomas sowunmi thomas babatunde sowunmi 2009-02-01 lagos , nigeria hungary u-19 hungary u-21 hungary 6 0 7 0 0 1 vasas apop siófok ajka dunaújváros ajaccio dunaújváros ferencváros slovacko hibernian vasas siófok striker thomas sowunmi

thomas sowunmi

thomas sowunmi -lrb- born 25 july 1978 in lagos , nigeria -rrb- is a hungarian international footballer .
sowunmi was born in nigeria to a hungarian mother and a nigerian father and spent the first nine years of his life in the african state .
he started playing football aged 13 and began a professional football career with dunaferr .
sowunmi left for vasas budapest in 1998 but returned to his first club in 2001 .
he made his first appearance for hungary in august 1999 , in a 1 -- 1 draw against moldova .
sowunmi was the first person of color to represent hungary at football .
he spent a short spell in france with ac ajaccio but returned to hungary with ferencvaros in 2003 .
he was signed by fc slovacko in 2005 but after one season became involved in a dispute with the club .
eventually he was released from his attachment to the czech team following police and fifa intervention .
sowunmi signed for scottish club hibernian on 6 february 2007 after impressing manager john collins while on trial .
in just his second match he came on as a half-time substitute in a scottish cup quarter-final tie at queen of the south and scored the decisive goal in a 2 -- 1 win .
sowunmi was released by hibernian in june , and sowunmi re-signed for vasas budapest in september 2007 .
