Perpetua Nkwocha

Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha // (listen) (born 3 January 1976) is a Nigerian female professional footballer, who is the coach of Clemensnäs IF from Swedish Women's Football Division 2, she previously played for Swedish club Sunnanå SK. She was also a member and formerly the captain of the Nigeria women's national football team.

Perpetua Nkwocha
Nwocha in May 2013
Personal information
Full name Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha[1]
Date of birth (1976-01-03) 3 January 1976[2]
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Clemensnäs IF (coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2014 Sunnanå SK 139** (65**)
International career‡
1999–2015 Nigeria 99[3] (80)
Managerial career
2015– Clemensnäs IF
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:41, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
**From 2008–2014
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:56, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

International career

With the Nigeria national team Nkwocha has participated in seven CAF Women's Championship editions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), winning five of them (2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014). At the 2004 African Women's Championship, she scored four goals in the final against Cameroon to help her country win the title. She also set a record by scoring nine overall goals during the tournament, and was named the best player of the tournament.[4] Nkwocha was voted African Women's Footballer of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011 by Confederation of African Football (CAF).

Nkwocha has also participated in four FIFA Women's World Cup (2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015), as well as the Olympic tournaments of Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008.

Club career

She played for Swedish side Sunnanå SK in both the top division (Damallsvenskan) and the second division (Elitettan) leagues from 2007 until 2014.

In June 2008, the BBC reported that Nkwocha had announced her plans to retire in two years, and that after doing so she wants to continue to be involved in football by becoming a coach.[4] As of 2012 she was still playing in Sweden's second-tier league.[5]

Ahead of the 2015 season, 39-year-old Nkwocha left Sunnanå to join lower division (4th tier) Clemensnäs IF in a player-coach role.[6] She spent part of the previous season coaching boys' football in Nigeria, but wanted to settle in Sweden after taking Swedish citizenship.[7]

International goals
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.13 December 2002Warri Township Stadium, Warri, Nigeria Mali2–05–12002 African Women's Championship
2.4–1
3.18 December 2002 South Africa4–05–0
4.20 December 2002 Ghana1–02–0
5.19 September 2004Germiston Stadium, Germiston, South Africa Algeria3–04–02004 African Women's Championship
6.22 September 2004 Cameroon1–02–2
7.25 September 2004Caledonian Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa Mali2–03–0
8.3–0
9.28 September 2004Johannesburg Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa Ghana4–04–0
10.3 October 2014 Cameroon1–05–0
11.2–0
12.3–0
13.4–0
14.28 October 2006Oleh, Nigeria Equatorial Guinea3–23–22006 African Women's Championship
15.31 October 2006Warri Township Stadium, Warri, Nigeria Algeria2–06–0
16.6–0
17.7 November 2006 Cameroon2–05–0
18.3–0
19.4–0
20.11 November 2006 Ghana1–01–0
21.12 August 2008Beijing Workers' Stadium, Beijing, China Brazil1–01–32008 Summer Olympics
22.23 May 2010Stade Robert Champroux, Abidjan, Ivory Coast Ivory Coast1–02–12010 African Women's Championship qualification
23.5 June 2010Abuja National Stadium, Abuja, Nigeria Ivory Coast2–13–1
24.3–1
25.1 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa Mali1–05–02010 African Women's Championship
26.2–0
27.3–0
28.4 November 2010 South Africa1–02–1
29.2–1
30.7 November 2010Makhulong Stadium, Tembisa, South Africa Tanzania1–03–0
31.2–0
32.11 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa Cameroon3–15–1
33.4–1
34.5–1
35.14 November 2010 Equatorial Guinea1–04–2
36.5 July 2011Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden, Germany Canada1–01–02011 FIFA Women's World Cup
37.16 June 2012Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, Nigeria Zimbabwe1–04–02012 African Women's Championship qualification
38.29 October 2012Nkoantoma Stadium, Bata, Equatorial Guinea Cameroon2–12–12012 African Women's Championship
39.1 November 2012 Ethiopia3–03–0
40.14 October 2014Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia Zambia6–06–02014 African Women's Championship

Personal life

Nkwocha is in partnership with former Turkey based Çanakkale Dardanelspor professional striker and now by Piteå IF playing Ghanaian footballer Justice Tetteh Komey.[8]

Honours

International
Nigeria

Individual

References
  1. "List of Players – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). FIFA. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  3. "Profile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  4. "Nkwocha sets retirement date". 28 June 2008.
  5. "Soccerway profile". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  6. ""Peppe" blir tränare" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  7. "Sunnanå tappar "Peppe"" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  8. "FF har gjort klart med Tetteh Komey". Norran. Archived from the original on 23 November 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
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