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Full name
  
Sophia Omotola Omidiji

Number
  
9

Position
  
Forward

Current team
  
FC Eindhoven Women

Height
  
1.55 m

Playing position
  
Forward

Role
  
Football player

Place of birth
  
United States

Name
  
Sophia Omidiji


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Date of birth
  
(1997-06-18) June 18, 1997 (age 18)

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Sophia Omotola Omidiji (born June 18, 1997) is a Nigerian football player. She currently plays for the Nigerian U-20 Women National team and is signed to Dutch Division I Club S.B.V. Excelsior after completing a switch from KAA Gent in Belgium in June 2017.

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Early life

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Sophia Omotola Omidiji was born on June 18, 1997, and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, to a Nigerian father and an American mother. She began playing football at the age of five. Omidiji played high school football for Sierra Vista High School where she is the all-time leading goal scorer with 98 goals in four seasons including scoring 38 goals in her final season. She played at the school including the school's first ever regional/State/NIAA Southern Nevada final. She also played club soccer with Las Vegas Premier Sports Academy for coach Eyal Dahan.

PSV / FC EINDHOVEN

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In August 2015, Omidiji signed with PSV/FC Eindhoven women's team in the Netherlands prior to going to camp with the Nigerian U20 women National team, .

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KAA GENT

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In 2016, Sophia Omidiji transferred to KAA Gent which is a team that plays in the Belgium division I and played in 20 games and scored 18 goals with 12 assists.

S.B.V. Excelsior

In June 2017 Sophia Omidiji made the transfer from KAA Gent to S.B.V Excelsior which is a new addition to the Dutch Eredivisie which is the division I in the Netherlands.

International

Omidiji received her first national team call up with Nigeria women's national under-20 football team for an African world cup U-20 qualification game against Democratic Republic of Congo in an away game in Kinshasa. She called the call up to the national team the "greatest honor of my life".

She trained with the team in Abuja before heading to Kinshasa for the game against Congo where Nigeria won 2–1.

Personal

Omidiji has 3 younger brother's named Lateef Omidiji Jr. who is 13 and plays for the 2016-2017 current Dutch champions of the Netherlands: Feyenoord O15's, Rasheed Omidiji who is 9 and plays for FC Den Bosch's O10's selection team, and Amir Omidiji who is 6 and plays for V.V Baronie's JY7's. Omidiji's father Lateef Omidiji was born and raised in Lagos but is an indigence of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria while her grandfather Bili is also an indigence of Abeokuta, Ogun State but was born and raised in Iju Ota in Ado/Ota Local Government Area. Her middle name "Omotola" is a yoruba name meaning a child is as worthy as wealth.

References

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