Patrick Owomoyela

Patrick Owomoyela is the sort of footballer I instinctively admire. A Hamburg-born right-back of Nigerian heritage, he grafted his way up through Lüneburg, Osnabrück and Paderborn before reaching the big stages of Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund. The full-back role is thankless, demanding relentless running and defensive discipline with little glory, and at 187cm he clearly held his own in duels. I have a real soft spot for players who earn their place through consistency and trust rather than flash. Owomoyela's career reads like a steady, hard-won climb, and that quiet reliability is precisely the quality I find most underrated in modern football.

Name (English)

Patrick Owomoyela

Name (Japanese)

パトリック・オウォモイエラ

Reading

ぱとりっく・おうぉもいえら

Born

November 5, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

Origin

Hamburg, United States

Height

187 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.owomoyela.de
• Xhttps://x.com/RealOwo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.