Perpetua Nkwocha, the Glossary
Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha (born 3 January 1976) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played for and captained the Nigeria women's national football team.[1]
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59 relations: Adjoa Bayor, African Women's Footballer of the Year, Algiers, Association football, Çanakkale Dardanelspor, Bata, Equatorial Guinea, BBC Sport, Beijing, Cameroon women's national football team, Canberra, Coach (sport), Confederation of African Football, Cynthia Uwak, Damallsvenskan, Daveyton, Division 2 (Swedish women's football), Dresden, Elitettan, Exhibition game, FIFA, FIFA Women's World Cup, Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification, Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Football at the 2007 All-Africa Games – Women's tournament, Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Football at the Summer Olympics, Football team, Germiston, Ghana, Johannesburg, Lagos, Midfielder, Namibia, Nigeria women's national football team, Oleh, Delta, Piteå IF, Player-coach, Pretoria, Reading, Berkshire, Sunnanå SK, Sweden, Swedish nationality law, Turkey, Warri, Windhoek, Women's Africa Cup of Nations, 2002 African Women's Championship, 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2004 African Women's Championship, ... Expand index (9 more) »
- African Women's Footballer of the Year winners
- Sunnanå SK players
Adjoa Bayor
Grace Adjoa Bayor (popularly known as Adjoa Bayor, born 17 May 1979) is a Ghanaian former footballer who played as a midfielder. Perpetua Nkwocha and Adjoa Bayor are 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players, 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players and African Women's Footballer of the Year winners.
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African Women Footballer of the Year, an annual award for Africa's best female football player.
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Algiers
Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Çanakkale Dardanelspor
Çanakkale Dardanelspor Kulübü is a sports club located in Çanakkale, Turkey.
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Bata, Equatorial Guinea
Bata is a port city in the Litoral province of Equatorial Guinea.
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BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
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The Cameroon national women's football team, also known as the Indomitable Lionesses, is the national team of Cameroon and is controlled by the Cameroon Football Association.
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Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
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Coach (sport)
An athletic coach is a person coaching in sport, involved in the direction, instruction, and training of a sports team or athlete.
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) (in French Confédération Africaine de Football) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa.
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Cynthia Uwak
Cynthia Uwak (born 15 July 1986 in Akwa Ibom State) is a Nigerian football striker who most recently played for Åland United in the Naisten Liiga in Finland. Perpetua Nkwocha and Cynthia Uwak are 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players, African Women's Footballer of the Year winners, Damallsvenskan players, Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden, footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Nigeria women's international footballers, Nigerian women's footballers and Olympic footballers for Nigeria.
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Damallsvenskan
The italic, known as OBOS italic for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden.
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Daveyton
Daveyton is a township in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality of Gauteng in South Africa.
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Division 2 (Division 2 i fotboll för damer) is the fourth level in the league system of Swedish women's football and comprises 9 sections with 10 football teams in each.
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Dresden
Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.
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Elitettan
Elitettan (The Elite First) is the second highest division of Swedish women's football.
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Exhibition game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a pre-season game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced.
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FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
FIFA Women's World Cup
The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's international governing body.
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The football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics was the second edition of the women's Olympic football tournament and was held from 13 to 28 September 2000.
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The qualification for women's football tournament at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Women's Olympic Football tournament was held for the third time at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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The 2007 All-Africa Games football – Women's tournament was the 2nd edition of the African Games men's football tournament for women.
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The women's association football tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and four other cities in the People's Republic of China from 6 to 21 August.
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Association football has has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA World Cup tournament).
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A football team is a group of players selected to play together in the various team sports known as football.
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Germiston
Germiston, also known as kwaDukathole, is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng, South Africa, administratively forming part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since the latter's establishment in 2000.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.
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Lagos
Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.
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Midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder is an outfield position which plays primarily in the middle of the pitch.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
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The Nigeria women's national football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents Nigeria in international women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
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Oleh, Delta
Oleh is the headquarters of the Isoko South Local Government Area, one of the two administrative units in the Isoko region of Delta State, Southern Nigeria.
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Piteå IF
Piteå Idrottsförening, commonly known as Piteå IF, is a Swedish football club located in Piteå that currently competes in Sweden's top-division women's league, Damallsvenskan.
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Player-coach
A player-coach (also playing coach, captain-coach, or player-manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties.
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Pretoria
Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading is a town and borough in Berkshire, England.
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Sunnanå SK
Sunnanå SK is a football club from Skellefteå, Sweden who in 2019 plays in Swedish Women's Football Division 1, level 3 of women's soccer in Sweden.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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Swedish nationality law
Swedish nationality law determines entitlement to Swedish citizenship.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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Warri
The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House.
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Windhoek
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of Namibia.
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Women's Africa Cup of Nations
The Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations and formerly the African Women's Championship, is a biennial international women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1998 as the qualification for the FIFA Women's World Cup for African nations.
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2002 African Women's Championship
The 2002 African Women's Championship was the 5th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football.
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2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial championship of women's national soccer teams organized by FIFA.
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2004 African Women's Championship
The 2004 African Women's Championship was the 6th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football held in South Africa, who were elected as hosts on 12 December 2003, between 18 September and 3 October 2004.
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2006 African Women's Championship
The 2006 African Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football.
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2007 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the fifth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was an international football competition for women held in China from 10 to 30 September 2007.
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2008 African Women's Championship
The 2008 African Women's Championship was the 8th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football held between 15 and 29 November 2008 in and won by Equatorial Guinea.
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2010 African Women's Championship
The 2010 African Women's Championship was held in South Africa from 31 October to 14 November 2010.
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2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national football teams.
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2012 African Women's Championship
The 2012 African Women's Championship was a football competition, which was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
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2012 African Women's Championship qualification
This page provides the summaries of the matches of the qualifying rounds for the group stage of the 2012 African Women's Championship.
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2014 African Women's Championship
The 2014 African Women's Championship, the 11th edition of the tournament, was held in Namibia.
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2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA.
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See also
African Women's Footballer of the Year winners
- Adjoa Bayor
- Alberta Sackey
- Asisat Oshoala
- Cynthia Uwak
- Gaëlle Enganamouit
- Genoveva Añonman
- Mercy Akide
- Noko Matlou
- Perpetua Nkwocha
- Thembi Kgatlana
Sunnanå SK players
- Anna Pohjanen
- Annika Kukkonen
- Bárbara (footballer)
- Bianca Rech
- Birgitta Söderström
- Camilla Neptune
- Carina Holmberg
- Carys Hawkins
- Elin Bergkvist
- Elin Johansson (footballer)
- Erla Steina Arnardóttir
- Frida Abrahamsson
- Hanna Glas
- Hanna Ljungberg
- Hanna Marklund
- Helen Ukaonu
- Inger Arnesson
- Josefin Johansson
- Julia Spetsmark
- Kate Gill
- Kristin Jonsson
- Madelaine Edlund
- Maria Nordbrandt
- Matilda Forslund
- Matilda Rosqvist
- Nina Jakobsson
- Onome Ebi
- Perpetua Nkwocha
- Rebecca Smith (footballer)
- Riikka Ketoja
- Sam Lofton
- Sandra Betschart
- Sanna Frostevall
- Sanna Malaska
- Sara Nordin
- Susanne Nilsson
- Tasha St. Louis
- Taylor Leach
- Tiffeny Milbrett
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetua_Nkwocha
, 2006 African Women's Championship, 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2008 African Women's Championship, 2010 African Women's Championship, 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2012 African Women's Championship, 2012 African Women's Championship qualification, 2014 African Women's Championship, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.