Place of birth Owerri, Nigeria Name Desire Oparanozie Playing position Role Football player | Number 13 Height 1.65 m Years Team Date joined 2014 | |
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Full name Ugochi Desire Oparanozie Date of birth (1993-12-17) 17 December 1993 (age 22) Current teams En Avant de Guingamp (#12 / Forward), Nigeria women's national football team (Forward) Nominations African Women Footballer of the Year Profiles | ||
Desire oparanozie on her role in 2016 awcon
Ugochi Desire Oparanozie (born 17 December 1993) is a Nigerian football forward last playing in the Division 1 Féminine for Guingamp and the Nigerian national team.
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- Desire oparanozie on her role in 2016 awcon
- Club career
- International career
- International
- Club
- References
Club career
She started her career at Bayelsa Queens in the Nigerian Women's Championship and moved to Delta Queens in 2010. She then spent 2 months on loan at Düvenciler Lisesispor in the Turkish Women's First Football League in 2011, before returning to Delta Queens.
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.
She joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for the 2013–14 season signing a two-year contract. 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. 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.
For the 2014–15 she joined Guingamp of the French Division 1 Féminine, where she was joined by Nigerian international captain Evelyn Nwabuoku during the following season, who is also Oparanozie's sister.
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 tournament.
Oparanozie was also part of the Nigerian squads of the African Women's Championship of 2010 and 2014, winning both tournaments and scoring a free kick in the 2014 final.