Nkiru Okosieme

Nkiru Okosieme
Personal information
Full name Nkiru Doris Okosieme
Date of birth (1972-03-01) 1 March 1972
Place of birth Nigeria
Height 167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Midfielder
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000 King Tornado
2001–2004 Clayton State Lakers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
S.C. Imo State
Rivers Angels
2000–2005 Charlotte Lady Eagles
National team
1991–2003 Nigeria
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Nkiru Doris "NK" Okosieme (born 1 March 1972) is a female Nigerian former football midfielder. She was part of the Nigeria women's national football team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1] Okosieme was nicknamed "The Headmistress" for her habit of scoring important goals with her head.[2]

Okosieme captained Nigeria at the inaugural 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup while still a teenager. She played the full 80 minutes in all three of Nigeria's defeats, while attached to the S.C. Imo State club.[3]

At the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, Okosieme was playing for Rivers Angels.[4] Before the tournament she declared: "We no longer have an inferiority complex".[5] She scored three goals in four games as Nigeria reached the quarter-finals, losing 4–3 to Brazil. Okosieme enjoyed playing in America so much that she joined USL W-League club Charlotte Lady Eagles and enrolled at university, where she played college soccer.[6]

Her brother Ndubuisi Okosieme was also an international footballer.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ FIFA.com
  2. ↑ Sadjere, Clement (12 January 2011). "Top 4 Female Nigerian Footballers and Their Nicknames". E-Zine Articles.
  3. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup China '91 – Technical Report & Statistics" (PDF). FIFA. p. 82. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "OKOSIEME Nkiru". FIFA. Archived from the original on 10 February 2001. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "USA 1999: Nigeria". SoccerTimes.com. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  6. ↑ Jones, Grahame (12 October 2003). "U.S. Is a Shoe-in for Bronze". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Otitoju, Babajide (22 April 2002). "Ndubuisi Okosieme: Abuja's Garincha". allAfrica.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2003. Retrieved 19 June 2016.


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