Desire Oparanozie

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Desire Oparanozie
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Desire Oparanozie playing for Ataşehir Belediyespor (2013-14)
Personal information
Full name Ugochi Desire Oparanozie[1]
Date of birth (1993-12-17) 17 December 1993 (age 30)[1]
Place of birth Owerri, Nigeria[2]
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Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Guingamp
Number 13
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
??–2010 Bayelsa Queens
2010–2012 Delta Queens
2011 → Düvenciler Lisesispor (loan)
2012–2013 Rossiyanka 11 (2)
2013–2014 Wolfsburg 1 (0)
2014 Ataşehir Belediyespor 7 (6)
2014– Guingamp 18 (11)
International career‡
Nigeria 35[3] (22)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 01:34, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:08, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Ugochi Desire Oparanozie (born 17 December 1993) is a Nigerian football forward last playing in the Division 1 Féminine for Guingamp[4] and the Nigerian national team.

International career

She is a member of the Nigerian national team, with which she played the FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments of 2011 and 2015. As a junior international she scored 2 goals in the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and 3 goals in the 2012 edition, including winners in the group stage and quarterfinals.

Oparanozie was also part of the Nigerian squads of the African Women's Championship of 2010 and 2014, winning both tournaments.

Club career

Desire Oparanozie playing for Ataşehir Belediyespor in the home match against Kdz. Ereğlispor (2013-14)

She started her career at Bayelsa Queens in the Nigerian Women's Championship and moved to Delta Queens in 2010. She then spend 2 months on loan at Düvenciler Lisesispor in the Turkish Women's First Football League in 2011, before returning to Delta Queens.[5]

In 2012 she joined Rossiyanka from the Russian Women's Football Championship, with them she played four matches at the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, scoring one goal.[6]

She joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for the 2013–14 season signing a two year contract.[7][8] In the first half of the season, she only appeared in one game, and mostly played for Wolfsburg's second team. In the winter, after half a season, she left Wolfsburg.[9] On 21 February 2014, Oparanozie transferred to Ataşehir Belediyespor to play the second half of the season in the Turkish Women's First Football League.[10]

For the 2014–15 she joined Guingamp of the French Division 1 Féminine.[5]

Honours

International

Nigeria

Club

Delta Queens

References

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  4. ↑ Profile in soccerway.com
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  8. ↑ http://www.womensoccer.de/2013/06/13/vfl-wolfsburg-verpflichtet-desire-oparanozie/
  9. ↑ http://www.womensoccer.de/2014/01/23/vfl-wolfsburg-trennt-sich-von-desire-oparanozie/
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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