Josephine Mathias (born 16 December 1999) is a Nigerian

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's rugby union ...

midfield In many sports, midfield is the part of a sports field that is near the line that is equally far from the end lines. That is, in American football it is the part of the field near the 50-yard line; in association football (soccer) and field hoc ...

er, who played in the Turkish Women's First Football League for

Trabzon İdmanocağı İdmanocağı or İdman Ocağı is a Turkish sports club based in Trabzon, Turkey. The club had a strong rivalry with another club, İdmangücü, which matched the Istanbul derby between Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray. İdmanocağı were compared ...

with jersey number 16. Mathias played in her country for

Nasarawa Amazons Nasarawa Amazons F.C. is a women's association football club based in Lafia in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The club is associated with the men's football club Nasarawa United. The home jersey is green, while the away jersey is white with a diagonal s ...

. By March 2018, she moved to Turkey and joined

to play in the 2017-18 Turkish Women's First Football League. She capped six times in total, and left the team after they were relegated to the Women's Second League. Returned to Nigeria, she signed first with

Rivers Angels Rivers Angels F.C. (formerly Larry Angels F.C.) is a Nigerian professional football club based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in Nigeria. They play in the Nigeria Women Premier League, the top flight in the national female soccer league pyramid ...

, and transferred then to her former club to Nasarawa Amazons. She was a member of the

Nigeria women's national football team The Nigeria women's national football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, represents Nigeria in international women's association football, women's football and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The team is Africa's most s ...

at the 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament matches between August and October 2019.

References

Living people 1999 births Footballers from Kaduna Nigerian women's footballers 21st-century Nigerian sportswomen Women's association football midfielders Nigeria women's international footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate women's footballers in Turkey Trabzon İdmanocağı women's players Nasarawa Amazons F.C. players Rivers Angels F.C. players {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio-stub