Gloria Chinasa Okoro (born 8 December 1987), known as Gloria Chinasa, is a

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who plays as a

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. Born in Nigeria, she has played for

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Club career

Chinasa was born and raised in Nigeria. She began her career in Port Harcourt-based club

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. In 2005, she played a match against an Equatorial Guinean club and scored three goals. After that, she received a proposal to play for the Equatorial Guinea women's national team, and she accepted. Chinasa played the 2011 World Cup, where she was a starting player in the 3–2 loss to

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. Following the World Cup Chinasa signed for

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champion Unia Racibórz. She scored the team's only goal in the 2011–12 Champions League qualifying stage match against Pallokerho-35. On 28 October 2006, Chinasa scored the first goal in history for

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She also became African Champion on tournaments held in

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and

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International goals

''Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first''

Honors and awards

Clubs

Estrellas de E'Waiso Ipola *Liga Nacional de Fútbol Femenino: 2018

National team

;Equatorial Guinea *

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* * 1987 births Living people Footballers from Enugu Nigerian women's footballers Women's association football forwards Rivers Angels F.C. players RTP Unia Racibórz players Gintra Universitetas players Bobruichanka Bobruisk players KFF Vllaznia Shkodër players Igbo sportspeople Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate women's footballers in Poland Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania Expatriate women's footballers in Lithuania Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Expatriate women's footballers in Belarus Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Albania Expatriate footballers in Albania Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's footballers in France Nigerian emigrants to Equatorial Guinea Naturalized citizens of Equatorial Guinea Equatoguinean women's footballers Equatorial Guinea women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Equatoguinean people of Nigerian descent {{EquatorialGuinea-women-footy-bio-stub