Uchechi Sunday
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Uchechi Lopez Sunday | ||
| Date of birth | 9 September 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Port Harcourt, Nigeria | ||
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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FC Minsk | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004–2008 | Rivers Angels F.C. | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2010 | Rivers Angels F.C. | ||
| 2011 | FC Neunkirch | ||
| 2011–2015 | Rivers Angels F.C. | ||
| 2015– | FC Minsk | ||
| National team | |||
| 2014– | Nigeria U-20 | 6 | (3) |
| 2015– | Nigeria | 4 | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Uchechi Lopez Sunday (born September 9, 1994) is a Nigerian women's football striker, who currently plays for FC Minsk in the Belarusian Premier League. The 182 cm (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)-tall athlete wears number 18. She is also member of the Nigeria women's national football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons.
Uchechi Sunday was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on September 9, 1994 as the youngest of seven sisters.
Sunday began her football career in 2004 with Rivers Angels F.C. in Nigeria. From 2009, she played in their professional team in the Nigerian Women's Premier League. On April 14, 2011, she signed with the Swiss club FC Neunkirch in Schaffhausen. She capped eight times in the Nationalliga B and scored 18 goals. In August the same year following the end of the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup at Germany, she returned to her former club in Nigeria. At the beginning of 2015, Sunday joined the Belarusian team FC Minsk. She scored three goals in the first match with her new club. As end of May 2015, she had 14 goals netted in five matches only. She scored her 15th league goal in her 6th appearance on June 20 in the same season.
On August 11, 2015, she debuted in the UEFA Women's Champions League playing in the qualifying round match ageinst Konak Belediyespor from Turkey. She scored five goals in the match, which ended 10–1 for FC Minsk. She netted one goal in the second, and two goals in the third match, totaling to eight goals in three matches of the qualifying round.
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