Emilio Nsue Biography
Born on September 30, 1989, Emilio Nsue López is a professional football player for Intercity, a team in the Primera Federación. He is the captain of Equatorial Guinea’s national team and the team’s all-time greatest scorer. He was born in Spain. He can play as a winger but is primarily a right-back due to his versatility.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Nsue and the second or maternal family name is López.
Nsue started his career at Mallorca, where he played in four seasons of La Liga, 153 competitive games, and two loan stints at Real Sociedad and Castellón. He joined the English team Middlesbrough in 2014, and in 2016, he assisted them in being promoted to the Premier League.
Nsue began playing football in January 2017, when he joined Birmingham City. A year later, he moved to Cyprus and played for 18 months with APOEL, one season with Apollon Limassol, and one more season with APOEL. He joined Bosnian Premier League team Tuzla City in 2022 after being six months without a club, and later that year he signed Spanish club Intercity.
Nsue was qualified to represent both countries internationally because he was born in Spain to a Spanish mother and an Equatoguinean father. At the young level, he competed for Spain, winning European titles in 2007 and 2011 for the under-19 and under-21 divisions. His father’s nation, Equatorial Guinea, was the one he played for at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. He earned his senior international debut for the country in 2013. In 2021 and 2023, he participated in two more Africa Cup of Nations competitions.
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Emilio Nsue Career
International career
Spain
Nsue represented his native Spain at all underage levels. He was a member of the under-17 squad for the 2006 European Championships, but was injured in their opening match and took no further part in the finals. He started all five matches as Spain’s under-19s won the 2007 European Championships and was again part of the squad for the following year’s tournament.
Spain failed to progress past the group stage, losing to both Germany and Hungary. According to UEFA’s technical report, “one of the poignant images of the tournament was provided by striker Emilio Nsue, who was so upset by missed chances that he played the closing minutes [against Hungary] weeping disconsolately.” He scored twice in a 4–0 defeat of Bulgaria in the third group match, which meant they still qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Nsue played in two of the three group stage matches, scoring twice in an 8–0 win against Tahiti, and played the whole of the round of 16 match in which Spain were eliminated by Italy. Nsue made his under-21 debut in 2009. He was part of the 2011 European title-winning squad but appeared only once as a substitute in the group stages against the Czech Republic.
Equatorial Guinea
Nsue turned down an invitation to represent his father’s native country, Equatorial Guinea, at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations as he wanted to be a part of the Spanish team for the Olympics, but he did not make the final cut. In March 2013, he signed a contract with the Equatoguinean Football Federation, committing himself to attend all call-ups in which he was included, all expenses paid.
He scored on his debut for Equatorial Guinea in an unofficial friendly with Benin on March 21, 2013; he captained the team and played the first 45 minutes. He was again captain on his first competitive appearance, when he scored a hat-trick in a 4-3 win over Cape Verde in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. FIFA later declared him ineligible for that match and for the return fixture, awarding both games to Cape Verde by a 3–0 scoreline.
Nsue captained Equatorial Guinea’s team as they hosted and finished fourth in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. He scored the tournament’s opening goal in a 1-1 draw with the Republic of the Congo on January 17 at the Estadio de Bata.
Nsue also captained Equatorial Guinea at the delayed 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. He became the first player to score a hat-trick in the Cup of Nations since Soufiane Alloudi in 2008 after scoring three goals against Guinea-Bissau on January 18, 2024.
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Club career
Mallorca
Nsue was born in Palma, Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, and began his football career as a forward in the youth system of Mallorca. He made his professional debut for the club on February 3, 2008, playing the last few minutes of a 1-1 draw at Villarreal. He added a few more minutes the following week, in a goalless home draw with Almería.
For 2008–09, Nsue was loaned to Castellón of the Segunda División. Regularly used in a comfortable campaign for the Valencians, he scored twice in a 4-1 win at home to Levante on October 18, 2008.
Nsue joined another second-tier club, Real Sociedad, on loan for the 2009–10 season. Although rarely a starter, he was an important member of the attack as the Basque team returned to La Liga after a three-year absence.
Nsue returned to Mallorca for 2010–11 and began the season in the starting eleven, the first match being a 0–0 home draw with Real Madrid. On October 10, 2010, he scored his first competitive goal for the club, heading in from a corner in a 1-1 draw at Barcelona. He appeared in all 38 league games and netted four times as his team narrowly avoided relegation.
In 2011–12, Nsue played in several matches as an attacking right back and totaled nearly 2,000 minutes of action (20 starts) to help Mallorca rank eighth.[citation needed] After conversations with manager Joaquín Caparrós during pre-season, it was agreed that he would start the following campaign in that position.
Middlesbrough
On August 1, 2014, Nsue joined English Football League Championship club Middlesbrough, signing a three-year contract as a free agent. He was signed by Aitor Karanka, who knew him from the Spanish youth set-up. Eight days later, he made his debut, coming on as a substitute for Albert Adomah for the last 23 minutes of a 2–0 win over Birmingham City at the Riverside Stadium. On August 12, he made his first start, playing the whole of a 3–0 win at Oldham Athletic in the first round of the 2014–15 League Cup.
Boro reached the play-off final at Wembley on May 25, 2015. They lost 2–0 to Norwich City, and Nsue played the second half in place of Dean Whitehead after both goals had already been conceded. Despite Karanka’s insistence that the player would only be used in defence as an emergency procedure, he played much of his second season at right back. On November 28, 2015, he scored his first goal in English football to complete a 2–0 win at Huddersfield Town. On December 15, he netted the only goal of a home win over Burnley that put Middlesbrough at the top of the table.
Nsue played 37 of 46 league games in 2015-16 as Boro achieved automatic promotion to the Premier League. He played the first three undefeated matches in the top flight before being dropped for Antonio Barragán.
Birmingham City
Nsue signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Birmingham City of the Championship on January 18, 2017; the fee, officially undisclosed, was believed by the Birmingham Mail to be £1m with a further £1m in add-ons. He made his debut in the starting eleven for the league visit to Norwich City on January 28, playing at right back; Birmingham lost 2–0. He was an unused substitute for the next match but appeared in every match thereafter and “single-handedly tred to drag Blues up the pitch in the final fixture of the season, away to Bristol City, which his team needed to win to avoid relegation.
His only goal of the campaign came against Queens Park Rangers on 18 in stoppage time in a 4-1 home defeat. Changes in management and personnel and the need to stabilise a struggling team meant Nsue was no longer a first choice on the 2017–18 side. He played regularly under Harry Redknapp’s management in the early part of the season, but Steve Cotterill preferred the more defensive Maxime Colin at right back, and in the January 2018 transfer window, Nsue was allowed to leave.
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Cyprus
Nsue signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with Cypriot First Division champions APOEL in January 2018; the fee was undisclosed. He went straight into the starting eleven for the visit to Doxa on January 14; his headed goal after 26 minutes was Apoel’s third in an 8–0 win. He made 26 league appearances in his first 13 months with the club before a dispute with manager Paolo Tramezzani led to his contract being terminated for disciplinary reasons.
Having spent the 2019–20 season with another First Division club, Apollon Limassol, Nsue returned to APOEL in September 2020 on a one-year contract.
Tuzla City
Having been a free agent since leaving APOEL at the end of the 2020–21 season, Nsue signed for Bosnian Premier League club Tuzla City on February 9, 2022, until the end of the season.
He made his debut for the club on February 26, coming on as a substitute in the second half of a 1-1 away draw against city rivals Sloboda. On March 12, 2022, he scored his first goal for Tuzla City in his fourth appearance in a 2-1 away win over Velež Mostar in the Bosnian Premier League. Only two months after joining the club, Nsue left Tuzla City in April 2022.
Intercity
On June 17, 2022, Nsue became the first signing for Intercity for the 2022–23 season, signing a two-year contract.
Emilio Nsue Honours
Spain U19
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship: 2007
Spain U20
- Mediterranean Games: 2009
Spain U21
- UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2011
Emilio Nsue Social Media
- Emilio Nsue is active on social media. He is on Instagram: @nsue_emilio
Emilio Nsue’s Net Worth
- Emilio Nsue begins his career as a footballer. He has a market value of €3.5 million, based on statistics from Transfermarkt. His net worth has not been estimated.