Charity Ogbenyealu Adule (born 7 November 1993) is a Nigerian professional

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who plays as a

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for Spanish

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club

Alhama CF Alhama Club de Fútbol, known as Alhama CF ElPozo or Alhama ElPozo for sponsorship reasons and Alhama Females, is a women's association football club base in Alhama de Murcia. Founded in 2004, it currently competes in the Liga F, the Spanish w ...

and the Nigeria women's national team. At a club level, she has played for

Rivers Angels Rivers Angels F.C. (formerly Larry Angels F.C.) is a Nigerian football club based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. They play in the Nigeria Women Premier League, the top flight division in the female soccer league system. History The club wa ...

Bayelsa Queens Bayelsa Queens is a Nigerian women football club based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. They play in the highest pyramid of women football in Nigeria. They have won three championships in the Nigeria Women Premier League in the year 2004, 2 ...

and

BIIK Kazygurt BIIK Shymkent ( kk, БИІК-Қазығұрт, BİIK-Qazyğūrt) is a women's football club based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan competing in the Kazakhstani Championship. Formerly established in Almaty as Alma-KTZh, the team won five championships in a ...

Career

Club level

Adule started her career with the

and debuted at 14 years old at the Female Challenge Cup 2006. Her professional debut was against

Pelican Stars Pelican Stars F.C. is a women's association football club based in Calabar, Cross River State. They play in the Nigeria Women's Football League Championship, the second division for women's football in the country. In 2015, the team protested ag ...

, which she later described as the most memorable match of her career. She scored, and Rivers Angels placed third overall in the competition. In the spring of 2011, she left the Rivers Angels and joined the professional female Football League club

Yenagoa Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria. It is located at the southern part of the country at coordinates . The LGA has an area of 706 km² and a population of 352,285 at the 2006 census. Th ...

. Adule scored 57 goals in 40 games, for the Bayelsa Queens, and led to her in September 2014 signing a contract with Kazakh champions

. She made her debut for BIIK in the

UEFA Women's Champions League The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–2009), is a European women's association football competition. It involves the top club teams from countries affiliated with the European governing body UEFA. The ...

on 8 October 2014 against the German

FFC Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football club based in Frankfurt. Its first team currently plays in the German top flight, Frauen-Bundesliga. From 1998 to 2020, the club was known as 1. FFC Frankfurt. Eintracht have won se ...

. 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 The 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 16th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 8th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. The final was held at the Cardi ...

. During the course of the campaign she scored goals against

Wexford Youths Wexford Football Club is an Irish association football club based in Crossabeg, County Wexford. They compete in the League of Ireland First Division. The club joined the league after being awarded a First Division licence for the 2007 League ...

Gintra Universitetas FC Gintra is a Lithuanian women's football club from Šiauliai. It is the team of the local Šiauliai University. History The club plays in the highest Lithuanian league, the A Lyga and has won 13 championships so far. The fourth one in 2005 and ...

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and

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As Fr ...

. On 19 September 2019, Adule was announced as a new signing for Spanish side

SD Eibar Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in eu, Eibar Kirol Elkartea) is a professional Spanish football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country. Founded on 30 November 1940, the team currently plays in the Segunda División, the s ...

ahead of the 2019–20 season.

International

Adule played for Nigeria U20 at the

2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 5th edition of the tournament. It was held in Germany, who will also host the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup a year later from 13 July to 1 August 2010. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all ...

in Germany and the

2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 6th edition of the tournament. The tournament was played in Japan from 19 August to 8 September, with sixteen national football soccer teams and mark the first hosting of a FIFA women's football tourna ...

in Japan. Since 2013, Adule has played for the

Nigeria women's national football team The Nigeria national women's football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents Nigeria in international women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation. The team is by far Africa's most successful international women ...

. In November 2018, she revealed she had rejected approaches to represent the

Kazakhstan women's national football team Kazakhstan women's national football team represent Kazakhstan in international women football and it is governed by the Kazakhstan Football Federation. Kazakhstan made their debut in the Asian championships in 1995. Kazakhstan came second-to-la ...

. the 24 years old (2018), who’s in the Super Falcons camp in Epe,

Lagos Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...

, 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. Also she was among the squad that lost to the host nation Germany in the U-20 world cup final.

Honours

Club

; BIIK Kazygurt *

Kazakhstani Women's Football Championship The Kazakhstani women's football championship is contested in the top level women's football league in Kazakhstan. Before 1991, some Kazakh women's clubs had competed in the Soviet Union women's league system, but after the collapse of the Sovie ...

(5): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 * Kazakhstan Women's Cup (5): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Personal life

She is a supporter of London-based men's football club,

Chelsea F.C. Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. Th ...

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."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adule, Charity 1993 births Living people Women's association football forwards Nigerian women's footballers Nigeria women's international footballers Rivers Angels F.C. players Segunda Federación (women) players SD Eibar Femenino players Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Bayelsa Queens F.C. players BIIK Kazygurt players Footballers from Warri