Nkiru Okosieme

Nkiru Okosieme
Personal information
Full name Nkiru Doris Okosieme
Date of birth (1972-03-01) 1 March 1972
Place of birth Nigeria
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000 King Tornado
2001–2004 Clayton State Lakers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
S.C. Imo State
Rivers Angels
2000–2005 Charlotte Lady Eagles
International career
1991–2003 Nigeria
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nkiru Doris "NK" Okosieme (born 1 March 1972) is a former captain of the Nigeria women's national football team. She played as a midfielder. Okosieme played in four FIFA Women's World Cups (1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003). She played many African Women Cup of Nations games. In 2000, she played in the Summer Olympics.[1] Okosieme was called "The Headmistress". This was because she would sometimes score important goals with her head.[2]

Career

Okosieme became the captain for Nigeria in the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup. She was still a teenager.[3]

At the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, Okosieme was playing for Rivers Angels.[4][5] She scored three goals in four games. Nigeria reached the quarter-finals. They then lost 4–3 to Brazil. Okosieme loved playing in America so much that she joined USL W-League club Charlotte Lady Eagles. She also went to an American university. Here, she played college soccer.[6] She won the Peach Belt Conference Player of the Year. In all four years of college, she was in the All-Regional team. She was also a NSCAA All-American.

Okosieme has won the Africa Women Cup of Nations in 1998, 2000 and 2002.

Her brother Ndubuisi Okosieme was also an international footballer.[7]

References

  1. ↑ FIFA.com
  2. ↑ Sadjere, Clement (12 January 2011). "Top 4 Female Nigerian Footballers and Their Nicknames". E-Zine Articles.
  3. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup China '91 – Technical Report & Statistics" (PDF). FIFA. p. 82. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "OKOSIEME Nkiru". FIFA. Archived from the original on 10 February 2001. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "USA 1999: Nigeria". SoccerTimes.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  6. ↑ Jones, Grahame (12 October 2003). "U.S. Is a Shoe-in for Bronze". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Otitoju, Babajide (22 April 2002). "Ndubuisi Okosieme: Abuja's Garincha". allAfrica.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2003. Retrieved 19 June 2016.

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