Charity Adule

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Charity Adule
Personal information
Full name Charity Ogbenyealu Adule
Date of birth (1993-11-07) 7 November 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth Warri, Delta State, Nigeria
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Alhama
Number 24
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2011 Rivers Angels
2011–2014 Bayelsa Queens 40 (57)
2014–2018 BIIK Kazygurt
2019–2021 Eibar 38 (8)
2021–2022 Deportivo La Coruña 16 (1)
2022– Alhama 8 (0)
International career
Nigeria U-20
2013– Nigeria
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 April 2023

Charity Ogbenyealu Adule (born 7 November 1993) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish Liga F club Alhama CF and the Nigeria women's national team. At a club level, she has played for Rivers Angels, Bayelsa Queens and BIIK Kazygurt.

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Career

Club level

Adule started her career with the Rivers Angels and debuted at 14 years old at the Female Challenge Cup 2006. [1] [2] Her professional debut was against Pelican Stars, which she later described as the most memorable match of her career. She scored, and Rivers Angels placed third overall in the competition. [1]

In the spring of 2011, she left the Rivers Angels and joined the professional female Football League club Bayelsa Queens in Yenagoa. [1] Adule scored 57 goals in 40 games, [1] for the Bayelsa Queens, and led to her in September 2014 signing a contract with Kazakh champions BIIK Kazygurt. [3] She made her debut for BIIK in the UEFA Women's Champions League on 8 October 2014 against the German FFC Frankfurt. [4]

Over the course of five years at BIIK, Adule won five league titles and reached the Round of 16 of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League. During the course of the campaign she scored goals against Wexford Youths, Gintra Universitetas, Verona and Paris Saint-Germain.

On 19 September 2019, Adule was announced as a new signing for Spanish side SD Eibar ahead of the 2019–20 season. [5]

International

Adule played for Nigeria U20 at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany and the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan. [6] [7] Since 2013, Adule has played for the Nigeria women's national football team. [3]

In November 2018, she revealed she had rejected approaches to represent the Kazakhstan women's national football team. [8] the 24 years old (2018), who’s in the Super Falcons camp in Epe, Lagos, for the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations, said for five years, the Kazkh football authorities made several moves to make her pledge loyalty to them but she stood her grounds, hoping to get the chance to represent the Super Falcons someday [9] . Also she was among the squad that lost to the host nation Germany in the U-20 world cup final.

Honours

Club

BIIK Kazygurt

Personal life

She is a supporter of London-based men's football club, Chelsea F.C. Adule is religious, and attributes her any plans in her future to God, saying "God has the final say in my life. I believe the Almighty God who made me to be here today will take me to the final place He made for me. Everything in life is all about the favour of God, I believe with His favour upon me, I will go far." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Q & A With Adule Charity". SL10. 12 July 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Nigeria (Women) 2006". RSSSF . 31 July 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Adule Eyes UEFA, National Team Honours for 2014 Season". Gong News. 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "FRANKFURT NUR 2:2 BEIM KASACHISCHEN MEISTER" (in German). DFB. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Charity Adule: Nigeria forward joins Eibar from BIIK Kazygurt | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  6. ↑ Alaka, Babajide (30 June 2012). "Nigeria's U-20 women's team return to camp to prepare for tough World Cup challenge". Goal.com. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Why I dumped Kazakh for Nigeria – Adule". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  9. ↑ Ojoye, Taiwo (2 November 2018). "Why I dumped Kazakh for Nigeria – Adule". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
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