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Ifeanyi Chiejine

Ifeanyi Chiejine

Nigerian footballer (1983–2019)

Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine (17 May 1983 – 21 August 2019) was a Nigerian football striker. She last played for SSVSM-Kairat Almaty in the Kazakhstani Championship.[2] She had also played for FC Indiana in USA's W-League, KMF Kuopio and PK-35 Vantaa in Finland and Zvezda Perm in Russia.[3]

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International career

She had been a senior international, taking part in the 1999, 2003 and 2007 World Cups and the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. As of 2007 she had scored 15 goals in 61 games for Nigeria.[4]

Death

She died on 21 August 2019 following a brief illness.[5]

See also

  • Casey Phair - who broke Chiejine's record for youngest player at a world cup game

References

  1. [1]
    "Players to watch:NGA : Chiejine_Ifeanyichukwu". FIFA. 2 December 2003. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  2. [2]
    Profile in soccerway.com
  3. [3]
    Interview with Shek Borkowski in lta-agency.com Archived 10 October 2013 at archive.today
  4. [4]
    FC Indiana adds Nigeria's Ifeanyi Chiejine. Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Chicagoland Soccer News, 26 November 2007
  5. [5]
    Dede, Steve (21 August 2019). "Former Super Falcons midfielder Ifeanyi Chiejine dies after brief illness". Pulse. Retrieved 22 August 2019.


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