Perpetua Nkwocha

Perpetua Nkwocha
Personal information
Full namePerpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha[1]
Date of birth3 January 1976
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Playing positionMidfielder
Club information
Current team
Clemensnäs IF
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2007–2014Sunnanå SK
National team‡
Nigeria32(9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 June 2011

Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha (born 3 January 1976) is a Nigerian female professional footballer, who played for Swedish Damallsvenskan club Sunnanå SK. She is also a member and the captain of the Nigeria women's national football team.

Nkwocha was voted African Women Footballer of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011 by Confederation of African Football (CAF).

With the Nigeria national team, she has participated in three CAF Women's Championship (2002, 2004, and 2006), winning all three of them. At the 2004 Women's African Football Championship, she scored four goals in the final against Cameroon to help her country win the title. She also set a record by scoring nine overall goals during the tournament, and was named the best player of the tournament.[3]

Nkwocha has also participated in the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cups and the Olympic tournaments of 2000, 2004, and 2008.

In June 2008, the BBC reported that Nkwocha had announced her plans to retire in two years, and that after doing so she wants to continue to be involved in football by becoming a coach.[3] As of 2012 she still plays in Sweden's second tier league.[4]

Ahead of the 2015 season, 39-year-old Nkwocha left Sunnanå to join lower division Clemensnäs IF in a player-coach role.[5] She spent part of the previous season coaching boy's football in Nigeria, but wanted to settle in Sweden after taking Swedish citizenship.[6]

Achievements

Team honours

Individual honours

Personal life

Nkwocha is in partnership with former Turkey based Çanakkale Dardanelspor professional striker and now by Piteå IF playing Ghanaian footballer Justice Tetteh Komey.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "List of Players – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20080813134421/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/6/227606.shtml
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/7479616.stm
  4. ↑ "Soccerway profile". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  5. ↑ ""Peppe" blir tränare" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sunnanå tappar "Peppe"" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "FF har gjort klart med Tetteh Komey". Norran. Retrieved 22 December 2012.

External links

Awards
Preceded by
Adjoa Bayor1		 African Women Player of the Year
2004–2005 		Succeeded by
Cynthia Uwak2,3
Notes and references
1. http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/afr-wpoy.html; 2=http://www.sundayworld.co.za/swzones/sundayworldNEW/sport/sport1190617583.asp; 3=http://sports.tbo.com/sports/MGBHFW7DE6F.html