Greg Nwokolo


Gregory Junior Nwokolo is a Nigerian-born Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indonesian Liga 1 club Madura United and the Indonesia national team.

Club career

Greg began his career in Asia with Tampines Rovers. After that, in 2004 he signed for Young Lions. He left them in the same year to moved to the Indonesian club, Persijatim Solo. After half a year in Indonesia for Persijatim, he joined Singapore Armed Forces FC on January 2005 and signed back to PSIS Semarang in early 2006.
After a year and a half, in mid-2006 he joined PSMS Medan. He played for PSMS Medan one year before being signed in January 2007 for Persis Solo, after 14 goals in 28 games in the 2007–08 season was sold to Persija Jakarta.
In 2009, he left the club, Persija Jakarta and he want to seek his fortune in Europe and signed for the Portuguese club, S.C. Olhanense until 30 June 2010, in August 2010 before he moved back to Persija Jakarta as a free agent.
In the 2011–12 season, he was recruited by Pelita Jaya together with Safee Sali and Aleksandar Bajevski. After that, Greg moved to Arema Indonesia for the 2012–13 season.
On December 5, 2014, he signed again with Persija Jakarta.

International career

As a Nigerian, Greg does not have any record that he has been capped in any match for both junior or senior Nigeria National Football Team. In early 2010, Greg was rumoured that he will soon play for the Indonesia national football team, though this rumour wasn't confirmed by Greg himself, what is interesting is that he does not confirm nor deny the rumour. After many speculations, in August 2011 Football Association of Indonesia finally confirmed that Greg has been naturalised, and got Indonesian citizenship officially on 10 October 2011. He made his debut for the Indonesia national football team in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification campaign against Saudi Arabia on 23 March 2013.

International

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.14 August 2013Manahan Stadium, Surakarta, Indonesia1–02–0Friendly
2.25 March 2019Mandalarthiri Stadium, Mandalay, Myanmar1–02–0Friendly

Honours

Club

Tampines Rovers
On 15 April 2014, after the Persipura Jayapura vs Persebaya Bhayangkara match conference, Greg got into a fight with Jacksen F. Tiago because of personal problems that started in the Indonesia national football team. The situation then eased after police restrained both of them.

Personal life

On 20 May 2018, he married Indonesian model and actress Kimmy Jayanti, in Perth, Australia.