Esse Mbeyu Akida (born 18 November 1992)
is a professional
Kenya
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footballer
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, who currently plays for
PAOK in Greece,
and is a member "Harambee Starlets", the
Kenya National Football Team
The Kenya national football team represents Kenya in international football. It is controlled by the Football Kenya Federation, the governing body football in Kenya, and competes as a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and ...
.
Club career
Akida joined Moving The Goalposts (MTG) in 2002
She was awarded top scorer for the 2016 COTIF Women Football Tournament in Valencia, Spain.
In October 2018, Akida
transferred to Israeli
Ligat Nashim
Ligat Nashim ( he, ליגת נשים, lit. ''Women's League'') is the Israeli women's football league. It has been run by the Israel Football Association since 1998.
Format
The league is divided into two divisions, with the top division, tit ...
club
FC Ramat HaSharon.
In February 2020, Esse Akida joined
Beşiktaş J.K. in Turkey for an undisclosed fee. After appearing in two matches of the
2019-20 Turkish Women's First Football League season's second half, which discontinued due to
COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey
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The first case in Turkey was recorded on 11 March, when a l ...
, she left Turkey on 23 February 2021 to return to her country.
She currently plays for
PAOK.
International career
She played for Kenya at the
2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations,
scoring for Kenya in the match against
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
.
She scored for Kenya in a
2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification match against
Equatorial Guinea.
See also
* List of Kenya women's international footballers
References
External links
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1992 births
Living people
People from Kilifi County
Kenyan women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
F.C. Ramat HaSharon players
Beşiktaş J.K. women's football players
Ligat Nashim players
Kenya women's international footballers
Kenyan expatriate footballers
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Israel
Expatriate women's footballers in Israel
Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey
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