Uchechi Sunday Explained

Uchechi Sunday
Fullname:Uchechi Lopez Sunday[1]
Birth Date:1994 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Height:182cm
Clubnumber:28
Youthyears1:2004–2008
Years1:2009–2010
Years2:2011
Years3:2011–2015
Years4:2015–2017
Caps4:7
Goals4:7
Years5:2017–2018
Years6:2018–2019
Clubs6:Meizhou Huijun
Years7:2019–2021
Caps7:3
Goals7:0
Years8:2021–
Caps8:1
Goals8:0
Club-Update:4 October 2021
Nationalyears1:2014
Nationalcaps1:6
Nationalgoals1:3
Nationalyears2:2011–
Nationalcaps2:4
Nationalteam-Update:4 October 2021

Uchechi Lopez Sunday (born 9 September 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara in Japan's Women's Empowerment League. She wears number 28 jersey and is a member of the Nigeria women's national football team.

Early years

Sunday was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on 9 September 1994 as the youngest of seven sisters.

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 14 April 2011, she signed with the Swiss club FC Neunkirch in Schaffhausen. She capped eight times in the Nationalliga B and scored 18 goals. 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. At the beginning of 2015, Sunday joined the Belarusian team FC Minsk. She scored three goals in the first match with her new club. As end of May 2015, she had 14 goals netted in five matches only. She scored her 15th league goal in her 6th appearance on 20 June in the same season.

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

International

Playing for the Nigeria women's U-20 team, Sunday made her first appearance in a FIFA tournament at the 2010 U-20 World Cup in Germany, entering the Group C match-up against Mexico as a substitute.[2] [3] She also took part in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada, where she scored 3 goals in 6 matches. She scored three goals at the second round of the 2014 African U-20 Cup of Nations for Women.

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Players - Nigeria . . 31 August 2015 . 4 August 2014 . 14.
  2. Web site: Uchechi SUNDAY. https://web.archive.org/web/20150908070032/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=322841/index.html. dead. 8 September 2015. Player profile. FIFA.com. 9 December 2017.
  3. Web site: FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Germany 2010, Nigeria - Mexico, 21 Jul 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100724091749/http://www.fifa.com/u20womensworldcup/matches/round=253537/match=300125154/report.html#nosticky. dead. 24 July 2010. Match Report. FIFA.com. 9 December 2017.