Ifem "Iffy" Onuora was born on 28 July 1967 and is a Scottish former professional footballer, manager, and coach for the England U21 national team.
23 Facts About Iffy Onuora
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Iffy Onuora is the current equalities coach for the Professional Footballers Association.
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Iffy Onuora notably had spells with Huddersfield Town, Swindon Town and Gillingham and spent his entire career playing in England.
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Iffy Onuora played in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Sheffield United, Wycombe Wanderers, Grimsby Town, Tranmere Rovers and Walsall.
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Between 2010 and 2011 Onuora coached the Ethiopian national football team.
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Iffy Onuora was a journeyman striker who got his professional break playing for Huddersfield Town.
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Iffy Onuora went on to play just under 200 times for The Terriers and scored over 30 goals for the club before he was transferred to Mansfield Town in 1994.
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Iffy Onuora went on to feature heavily for The Gills for the next two seasons before Neil Warnock tempted the player into moving to Bramall Lane to sign a two-year deal with Sheffield United, reuniting Iffy Onuora with his former Gillingham strike partner Carl Asaba.
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Iffy Onuora made his next port of call Tranmere Rovers but after three league appearances, the club decided to release him a month later.
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On 25 March 2004, Iffy Onuora signed professional terms for Huddersfield Town, who were his first career club.
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Iffy Onuora played five times for The Terriers, scoring an important goal in the play-off semi final against Lincoln City but didn't make an appearance in the final at the Millennium Stadium.
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Iffy Onuora scored 133 goals in nearly 500 professional matches.
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Iffy Onuora's coaching career began when he was appointed first-team coach at Walsall in July 2004 but his contract was terminated by Walsall's manager Paul Merson in October 2004, with Merson feeling a more experienced coach was required.
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Iffy Onuora later denied that this was the case, claiming that Atkinson was at the club to film a fly-on-the-wall documentary called Big Ron Manager.
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Iffy Onuora later commentated on Gillingham matches on BBC Radio Kent.
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Iffy Onuora returned to Gillingham in June 2007 as a first team coach.
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Iffy Onuora held the position until the appointment of Mark Stimson on 1 November 2007 and briefly remained as a first team coach under the new regime before departing approximately two weeks later.
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Iffy Onuora was assisted in this role by Grant Brown.
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On 2 September 2009 both Peter Jackson and Iffy Onuora were sacked from their posts at Lincoln after the board were disappointed with the club's poor start to the season.
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Iffy Onuora's salary and other expenses were covered by MIDROC Ethiopia, a company owned by Ethiopian-born billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Al Amoudi.
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Iffy Onuora was first spotted playing football on Merseyside and briefly played for Everton's youth team during the mid-eighties.
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Iffy Onuora is the brother of the Olympic Bronze medallist sprinter Anyika Onuora and the academic Emy Onuora, the author of Pitch Black, a 2015 book on black British footballers.
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Iffy Onuora has a degree in economics from the University of Bradford.