Ugo Njoku

Ugo Njoku
Personal information
Full name Ugo Njoku[1]
Date of birth (1994-11-27) 27 November 1994 (age 30)[1]
Place of birth Nigeria
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Rivers Angels
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2017 Rivers Angels
2018– Croix Savoie Ambilly
National team‡
2014– Nigeria 7[2] (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:22, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Ugo Njoku (born 27 November 1994, in Nigeria) is a Nigerian footballer defender. She played for the Croix Savoie Ambilly club in the Nigerian Women's Championship. Njoku also played for the Nigeria women's national team.

International career

Ugo Njoku played for Rivers Angels in the Nigerian Women's Championship from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, she started to play for the Croix Savoie Ambilly.[3]

Njoku played her first international games in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. This match was against Namibia.[4] She also was in the squad that won in the 2014 African Women's Championship. In May 2015, Njoku played for the Nigeria team in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[5]

During the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Group Match vs Australia, Njoku used her elbow to hit the player Sam Kerr in the face.[6][7] Njoku was not allowed to play fo three games. Because of this, she could not play for the rest of the tournament.[8]

Honours

International

Nigeria

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "List of Players - 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Profile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "OFFICIAL: Super Falcons defender joins French club". Ultima Sportsnet. 2018-01-24. Archived from the original on 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2018-12-23.
  4. ↑ "Ugo Njoku - Profile and Statistics". SoccerPunter.com. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  5. ↑ "Falcons fly out with high hopes". Thenff.com. 2015-05-19. Archived from the original on 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  6. ↑ "Area Of Concern For USA Obvious After Draw With Sweden". Forbes.com. 2015-06-13. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
  7. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup: Nigeria's Ugo Njoku faces long ban for Sam Kerr elbow". foxsports.com.au. 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
  8. ↑ "Nigeria's Njoku banned 3 games for elbow to Kerr". The Equalizer. 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2015-06-26.

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