Uchechi Sunday
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Uchechi Lopez Sunday[1] | ||
Date of birth | 9 September 1994 | ||
Place of birth | Port Harcourt, Nigeria | ||
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Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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FC Minsk | ||
Number | 18 | ||
Youth career | |||
2004–2008 | Rivers Angels F.C. | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2010 | Rivers Angels F.C. | ||
2011 | FC Neunkirch | ||
2011–2015 | Rivers Angels F.C. | ||
2015– | FC Minsk | ||
International career | |||
2014– | Nigeria U-20 | 6 | (3) |
2015– | Nigeria | 4 | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Uchechi Lopez Sunday (born September 9, 1994) is a Nigerian women's football striker, who currently plays for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. The Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).-tall athlete wears number 18.[2] She is also member of the Nigeria women's national football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons.[3]
Early years
Uchechi Sunday was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on September 9, 1994 as the youngest of seven sisters.[4][5]
Career
Club
Sunday began her football career in 2004 with Rivers Angels F.C. in Nigeria. From 2009, she played in their professional team in the Nigerian Women's Premier League. On April 14, 2011, she signed with the Swiss club FC Neunkirch in Schaffhausen. She capped eight times in the Nationalliga B and scored 18 goals.[4][6] In August the same year following the end of the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup at Germany, she returned to her former club in Nigeria.[7] At the beginning of 2015, Sunday joined the Belarusian team FC Minsk.[3] She scored three goals in the first match with her new club.[8] As end of May 2015, she had 14 goals netted in five matches only.[9][10] She scored her 15th league goal in her 6th appearance on June 20 in the same season.[11]
On August 11, 2015, she debuted in the UEFA Women's Champions League playing in the qualifying round match ageinst Konak Belediyespor from Turkey. She scored five goals in the match, which ended 10–1 for FC Minsk.[2][3] She netted one goal in the second,[12] and two goals in the third match,[13] totaling to eight goals in three matches of the qualifying round.
International
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She made her debut at the FIFA Women's World Cup and appeared in three matches of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A for the Nigeria women's national football team.[15][16][17] Sunday took part in one game of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group D.[18]
References
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External links
- Uchechi Sunday – FIFA competition record
- Uchechi Sunday – UEFA competition record
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
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- 1994 births
- Sportspeople from Port Harcourt
- Nigerian women's footballers
- Association football forwards
- Rivers Angels F.C. players
- FC Minsk (women) players
- Nigeria women's international footballers
- Living people
- Nigerian expatriate footballers
- Nigerian expatriates in Switzerland
- Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland
- Nigerian expatriates in Belarus
- Expatriate women's footballers in Belarus