Osinachi Marvis Ohale (born 21 December 1991) is a Nigerian professional

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who plays as a

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right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

for Spanish

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club

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and the Nigeria women's national team.

Club career

Ohale played for

Houston Dash The Houston Dash is a professional women's soccer team based in Houston, Texas. It joined the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in the 2014 season, and is affiliated with the MLS team Houston Dynamo FC. History Establishment On November ...

in the

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throughout the 2014 season before returning home to Nigeria with

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 ...

. In 2016, she joined Swedish

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

side

Vittsjö GIK Vittsjö Gymnastik- och Idrottsklubb is a football club from Vittsjö, Sweden. They play in the highest level of women's soccer leagues in Sweden, the Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OB ...

, playing for the club on 22 occasions before transferring to Vaxjo DFF eighteen months later in August 2018. On 11 September 2019, she signed for Spanish side

CD Tacón Real Madrid Femenino is a Spanish women's football club in Madrid. Founded as the independent Club Deportivo TACÓN in 2014, the club later underwent a merger and acquisition process with Real Madrid beginning in 2019 and was officially rebrand ...

on a permanent transfer, playing her first game for the club in a 3–0 victory over

Sporting de Huelva Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later, ...

just three days later. On 30 July 2020, Ohale signed for A.S. Roma Women, the Nigeria international parted ways with Spanish side CD Tacon (now renamed

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), last month (June, 2020) after the expiration of her contract with the Primera Iberdrola outfit. She joined the Serie A Women's League outfit on a one-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Reacting to her historic move, Ohale told the club website: "I chose Roma because of so many things; so many amazing things about the club, about this city and this country that interested me". "I felt like it would be a great thing for me, to explore and to experience new things and a new challenge".

International career

She represented

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

in the

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tournaments of

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and

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. She has won the competition on all four occasions. She was also on the Nigerian squads of the

FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA), the sport's international governing bo ...

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and

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Honours

Club

; Delta Queens FC *

Nigerian Women's Championship The NWFL Premiership (formerly Nigeria Women Premier League) is the top-level league for women's association football in Nigeria. It is the women's equivalent of the men's league, the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). The Nigeria Wome ...

(2): 2011, 2012

International

; Nigeria *

Africa Women Cup of Nations 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 Conf ...

(4):

Individual

* IFFHS CAF Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020

References

External links

Osinachi Ohale
at BDFútbol *
Profile
at

* 1991 births Living people People from Owerri Sportspeople from Imo State Nigerian women's footballers Women's association football central defenders Women's association football fullbacks Rivers Angels F.C. players Delta Queens F.C. players Houston Dash players Vittsjö GIK players Växjö DFF players Real Madrid Femenino players A.S. Roma (women) players Madrid CFF players National Women's Soccer League players Damallsvenskan players Liga F players Serie A (women's football) players Nigeria women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Deportivo Alavés Gloriosas players Igbo sportspeople {{Nigeria-footy-defender-stub