Iniabasi Umotong

Ini-Abasi Umotong

Ini-Abasi Umotong playing for Portsmouth in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Ini-Abasi Anefiok Umotong
Date of birth	(1994-05-15) 15 May 1994 (age 23)
Place of birth	Calabar, Nigeria
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current team	Oxford United
Number	7
Youth career
	Birmingham City Reserves
2011–12	Aston Villa
2012–13	Wright State Raiders
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–2016	Portsmouth
2016–	Oxford United
National team‡
2015–	Nigeria	1	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 04:21, 30 June 2015 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:10, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Ini-Abasi Anefiok Umotong (born 15 May 1994) is a Nigerian international footballer who plays as a forward for Oxford United of the FA WSL 2 and the Nigeria national team.

Born in Calabar, Nigeria, Umotong alongside her family moved to Birmingham, England when she was one year old. She is the youngest of six siblings born to Ben Anefiok and Grace Umotong. She began playing football at the age of five and it was in Primary school she got scouted by Birmingham City, Centre of Excellence in 2003.

She earned her first call up to the Super Falcons in February, 2015 when coach Edwin Okon invited 36 players to camp to prepare for the 11th All-Africa Games qualifiers, 2016 Olympic Games qualifiers and the 7th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals. The Economics and Actuarial Science undergraduate at the University of Southampton had to skip the first two weeks of the camp in Abuja due to her studies.

On arrival after two weeks, promising Umotong got her first taste of action almost immediately as a late substitute in a warm-up 1-1 draw against a male academy team, showing true dedication in her quest to make the team for Canada 2015. She followed it up with a goal when she came on for 20 minutes in another tune-up match against Nigeria Women Premier League side, Confluence Queens, before becoming the first Portsmouth player to feature in a full international after making her 33-minute debut for Nigeria in the first leg of their All-Africa Games qualifier against Mali in Bamako. She was eventually named in the 23-player list for the World Cup in Canada but did not feature in any of Nigeria's three group matches as the African Champions failed to progress to the knockout stage.