Rita Nwadike (born 3 November 1974) is a Nigerian former
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
midfielder who played for the
Nigeria women's national football team at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
. At the club level, she played for
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 ...
.
She scored Nigeria's first ever
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 ...
goal against
Canada in the
1995 tournament in Sweden.
See also
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Nigeria at the 2004 Summer Olympics
References
External links
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1974 births
Living people
Nigerian women's footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Nigeria
Women's association football midfielders
1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Nigeria women's international footballers
1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Rivers Angels F.C. players
Igbo people
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