Evelyn Nwabuoku (born 14 November 1985) is a

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who plays as a midfielder for

En Avant de Guingamp En Avant Guingamp (, en, Forward Guingamp), commonly referred to as EA Guingamp, EAG, or simply Guingamp (), is a professional football club based in the commune of Guingamp in France's Brittany region. The club was founded in 1912 and play in ...

in the French

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and the

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and she is the captain of the national side. Nwabuoku played previously for

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 ...

in the

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and both

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 Rivers Angels in the

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Club career

Nwabuoku played in the

for

and Rivers Angels before moving to

of the

in 2015. She subsequently moved to French side

, where she joined up with her sister, and fellow Nigerian international Desire Oparanozie. She helped Nwabuoku with the initial language difficulties and to settle in the area. Nwabuoku made her debut in the victory against league favourites

FCF Juvisy Paris FC is a French women's football club based in Viry-Châtillon, a suburb of Paris. The club is the female section of Ligue 2 men's club Paris FC. The club was founded in 1971 and currently play in the Division 1 Féminine, the first divis ...

, and praised the atmosphere in the

Fred-Aubert Stadium The Stade Fred-Aubert is a Soccer-specific stadium, football stadium located at Saint-Brieuc, France. Inaugurated in 1990, it has since hosted the home games of Stade Briochin. This stadium also hosts the home matches of the women's section of E ...

International career

She captained the

, nicknamed the "Super Falcons", at the

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the ...

and the

2014 African Women's Championship The 2014 African Women's Championship, the 11th edition of the tournament, was held in Namibia. This tournament, organized by the Confederation of African Football, was also a qualification tournament for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, with top t ...

winning the latter. Nwabuoku said that becoming the captain was "amazing", and that "There is nothing as great as representing and defending the pride of your country." However, she added that the team had underperformed in the previous few years and were looking to improve at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. She was also part of the squad at the

2012 African Women's Championship The 2012 African Women's Championship was a football competition, which was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The final tournament was held in from 28 October to 11 November in Equatorial Guinea. Qualification A total of ...

Honours

Club

Rivers Angels *

: 2014 * Nigerian Women's Cup: 2014

International

Nigeria *

African Women's Championship The Women's Africa Cup of Nations, also called the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons and abbreviated to WAFCON, is an international women's football competition held every two years and sanctioned by the Confe ...

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at footofeminin.fr Rivers Angels F.C. players Women's association football midfielders 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Nigerian women's footballers 1985 births Living people Nigeria women's international footballers Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's footballers in France Division 1 Féminine players En Avant Guingamp (women) players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Bayelsa Queens F.C. players BIIK Kazygurt players {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio-stub