Ifeanyi Chiejine
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 17 May 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Lagos, Nigeria | ||
| Date of death | 21 August 2019 (aged 36) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009 | KMF Kuopio | ||
| 2013 | CSHVSM | ||
| International career | |||
| 2002 | Nigeria U-19 | ||
| 1999–2008 | Nigeria | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine (17 May 1983 – 21 August 2019) was a Nigerian football who played as a striker for the national women's team. She last played for SSVSM-Kairat Almaty in the Kazakhstani Championship.[2] She had also played for FC Indiana in USA's W-League, KMF Kuopio and PK-35 Vantaa in Finland and Zvezda Perm in Russia.[3]
International career
[edit | edit source]She had been a senior international, taking part in the 1999 where she held the record as the youngest female footballer to grace the World Cup until 2023, 2003 and 2007 World Cups and the 2000, participated in four CAF Women's Championship editions (2002, 2004, 2006,and 2004), winning three of them (2002, 2004, 2006), and 2008 Summer Olympics. As of 2007, she had scored 15 goals in 61 games for Nigeria.[4]
Death
[edit | edit source]She died on 21 August 2019 following a brief illness.[5]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Casey Phair - Became the youngest player to appear at a FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023, a distinction held by Chiejine until then
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Profile in soccerway.com
- ^ Interview with Shek Borkowski in lta-agency.com Archived 10 October 2013 at archive.today
- ^ FC Indiana adds Nigeria's Ifeanyi Chiejine. Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Chicagoland Soccer News, 26 November 2007
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- 1983 births
- 2019 deaths
- Footballers from Lagos
- Nigerian women's footballers
- Nigerian expatriate women's footballers
- Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan
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- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
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- F.C. Indiana players
- USL W-League (1995–2015) players
- Zvezda 2005 Perm players
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