Desire Oparanozie

Desire Oparanozie

Desire Oparanozie playing for Ataşehir Belediyespor (2013–14)
Personal information
Full name	Ugochi Desire Oparanozie
Date of birth	(1993-12-17) 17 December 1993 (age 23)
Place of birth	Owerri, Nigeria
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current team	Guingamp
Number	9
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
??–2010	Bayelsa Queens
2010–2012	Delta Queens
2011	→ Düvenciler Lisesispor (loan)
2012–2013	Rossiyanka	11	(2)
2013–2014	Wolfsburg	1	(0)
2014	Ataşehir Belediyespor	7	(6)
2014–	Guingamp	37	(22)
National team‡
	Nigeria	35	(22)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:34, 18 July 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:08, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Ugochi Desire Oparanozie (born 17 December 1993) is a Nigerian football forward last playing in the Division 1 Féminine for Guingamp and the Nigerian national team.

She started her career at Bayelsa Queens in the Nigerian Women's Championship and moved to Delta Queens in 2010. She then spent 2 months on loan at Düvenciler Lisesispor in the Turkish Women's First Football League in 2011, before returning to Delta Queens.

In 2012, she joined Rossiyanka from the Russian Women's Football Championship, with them she played four matches at the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, scoring one goal.

She joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for the 2013–14 season signing a two-year contract. In the first half of the season, she only appeared in one game, and mostly played for Wolfsburg's second team. In the winter, after half a season, she left Wolfsburg. On 21 February 2014, Oparanozie transferred to Ataşehir Belediyespor to play the second half of the season in the Turkish Women's First Football League.

For the 2014–15 she joined Guingamp of the French Division 1 Féminine, where she was joined by Nigerian international captain Evelyn Nwabuoku during the following season, who is also Oparanozie's sister.