Uchechi Sunday

Uchechi Sunday
Personal information
Full name Uchechi Lopez Sunday[1]
Date of birth (1994-09-09) 9 September 1994
Place of birth Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 FC Minsk
Number 18
Youth career
2004–2008 Rivers Angels F.C.
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2010 Rivers Angels F.C.
2011 FC Neunkirch
2011–2015 Rivers Angels F.C.
2015– FC Minsk
National team
2014– Nigeria U-20 6 (3)
2015– Nigeria 4

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Uchechi Lopez Sunday (born September 9, 1994) is a Nigerian women's football striker, who currently plays for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. The 182 cm (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)-tall athlete wears number 18.[2] She is also member of the Nigeria women's national football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons.[3]

Early years

Uchechi Sunday was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on September 9, 1994 as the youngest of seven sisters.[4][5]

Career

Club

Sunday began her football career in 2004 with Rivers Angels F.C. in Nigeria. From 2009, she played in their professional team in the Nigerian Women's Premier League. On April 14, 2011, she signed with the Swiss club FC Neunkirch in Schaffhausen. She capped eight times in the Nationalliga B and scored 18 goals.[4][6] In August the same year following the end of the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup at Germany, she returned to her former club in Nigeria.[7] At the beginning of 2015, Sunday joined the Belarusian team FC Minsk.[3] She scored three goals in the first match with her new club.[8] As end of May 2015, she had 14 goals netted in five matches only.[9][10] She scored her 15th league goal in her 6th appearance on June 20 in the same season.[11]

On August 11, 2015, she debuted in the UEFA Women's Champions League playing in the qualifying round match ageinst Konak Belediyespor from Turkey. She scored five goals in the match, which ended 10–1 for FC Minsk.[2][3] She netted one goal in the second,[12] and two goals in the third match,[13] totaling to eight goals in three matches of the qualifying round.

International

Playing for the Nigeria women's U-20 team, Sunday took part at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. She scored three goals at the second round of the 2014 African U-20 Cup of Nations for Women.[14]

She made her debut at the FIFA Women's World Cup and appeared in three matches of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A for the Nigeria women's national football team.[15][16][17] Sunday took part in one game of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group D.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 "List of Players - Nigeria" (PDF). FIFA. 4 August 2014. p. 14. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 "UEFA Women's Champions League-2016 > Matches-Qualifying round – Konak-Minsk". UEFA. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  3. 1 2 3 "Uchechi hits five as Minsk savage Konak Belediyesi". Futball Galore. 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  4. 1 2 Lieske, Matti (2011-06-25). "Schweden sei Dank". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  5. ↑ "Uchechi Sunday". Kicker (in German). Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Der große Traum der Sunday Uchechi". Südkurier (in German). 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  7. ↑ "Falconets coach invites 29 players to camp". Punch. 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  8. ↑ SL10 (2015-04-21). "Uchechi Bags Hattrick In Minsk Romp". Soccer Laduma. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  9. ↑ "Uchechi Delighted With Minsk's Early Start". SL10. 2015-05-28. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  10. ↑ "Goal Machine Uchechi Scores Four, As Ishola And Otuwe Find Form In Massive". All Nigerian Soccer. 2015-05-28. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  11. ↑ "Red – hot Uchechi nets 15th league goal". News 24. 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  12. ↑ "Sarajke izgubile od Minska s 3:0". Goal (in Bosnian). 2015-08-13. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  13. ↑ "UWCL: Uchechi at the double as Minsk books second round ticket". Futball Galore. 2015-08-17. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  14. ↑ "Nigeria 4–0 Tunisia". Futbol 24. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  15. ↑ "Nigeria 0–1 France". Shark. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  16. ↑ "Germany 1–0 Nigeria". Shark. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  17. ↑ "Canada 0–1 Nigeria". Shark. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  18. ↑ "Uchechi Sunday". Shark. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
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