Christy Onyenaturuchi Ucheibe (born 25 December 2000) is a Nigerian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Portuguese club Benfica.

Club career

Ucheibe played for

Nasarawa Amazons Nasarawa Amazons F.C. is a women's association football club based in Lafia in Nasarawa State, the club is related to the men's football club Nasarawa United. The home jersey is green, the away jersey is white with a diagonal sky blue stripe. Hi ...

in the 2018 season. On 14 February 2020, Ucheibe signed for Portuguese club Benfica on a three and a half years deal.

International career

Ucheibe was selected for the

2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was the fourth edition of the youth association football tournament for women under the age of 17. The final tournament was hosted in Costa Rica. The competition was played from 15 March to 4 April 2014. Jap ...

and the

2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, the biennial international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its i ...

. In the last tournament she played three matches from the start.

Honours

Benfica *

Campeonato Nacional Feminino The Campeonato Nacional Feminino (English: Women's National Championship), also known as Liga BPI for sponsorship reasons, is the top-tier women's association football league in Portugal. It is run by the Portuguese Football Federation and began ...

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Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual football club competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the Primeira Liga and LigaPro, the top two tier ...

: 2019–20, 2020–21

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* 2000 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Nigerian women's footballers Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino players S.L. Benfica (women) footballers Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate women's footballers in Portugal Nasarawa Amazons F.C. players Nigeria women's international footballers {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio-stub