Charity Ogbenyealu Adule (born 7 November 1993) is a Nigerian professional

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who plays as a

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for Spanish

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club

Alhama CF Alhama Club de Fútbol, known as Alhama CF ElPozo or Alhama ElPozo for sponsorship reasons and Alhama Females, is a women's association football club base in Alhama de Murcia. Founded in 2004, it currently competes in the Liga F, the Spanish ...

and the Nigeria women's national team. At a club level, she has played for

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 ...

Bayelsa Queens Bayelsa Queens is a women's football club based in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. They play in the top tier of the women's football league pyramid in Nigeria. They have won the NWFL Premiership six times and finished runners-up on four occas ...

and

BIIK Kazygurt BIIK Shymkent () is a women's association football, women's football club based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan competing in the Kazakhstan women's football championship, Kazakhstan Championship. Formerly established in Almaty as Alma-KTZh, the team won ...

Career

Club level

Adule started her career with the

and debuted at 14 years old at the Female Challenge Cup 2006. Her professional debut was against

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, which she later described as the most memorable match of her career. She scored, and Rivers Angels placed third overall in the competition. In the spring of 2011, she left the Rivers Angels and joined the professional female Football League club

Yenagoa Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria. It is located at the Niger-Delta region of the country at coordinates . The LGA has an area of 706 km2 and an estimated population of 798,466 at 2024. ...

. Adule scored 57 goals in 40 games, for the Bayelsa Queens, and led to her in September 2014 signing a contract with Kazakh champions

. She made her debut for BIIK in the

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on 8 October 2014 against the German

FFC Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football club based in Frankfurt. Its first team currently plays in the German top flight, Frauen-Bundesliga. From 1998 to 2020, the club was known as 1. FFC Frankfurt. Eintracht have won sev ...

. Over the course of five years at BIIK, Adule won five league titles and reached the Round of 16 of the

2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League was the 16th edition of the European women's club football championship organised by UEFA, and the 8th edition since being rebranded as the UEFA Women's Champions League. The final was held at the Card ...

. During the course of the campaign she scored goals against Wexford Youths,

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and

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. On 19 September 2019, Adule was announced as a new signing for Spanish side

SD Eibar Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in ) is a Spanish football league teams, Spanish professional football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Founded on 30 November 1940, the men’s te ...

ahead of the 2019–20 season.

International

Adule played for Nigeria U20 at the

2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 5th edition of the tournament. It was held in Germany, who also hosted the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup a year later, from 13 July to 1 August 2010. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all si ...

in Germany and the

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in Japan. Since 2013, Adule has played for 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 ...

. In November 2018, she revealed she had rejected approaches to represent the

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. the 24 years old (2018), who’s in the Super Falcons camp in Epe,

Lagos Lagos ( ; ), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria. With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and on ...

, for the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations, said for five years, the Kazkh football authorities made several moves to make her pledge loyalty to them but she stood her grounds, hoping to get the chance to represent the Super Falcons someday. Also she was among the squad that lost to the host nation Germany in the U-20 world cup final.

Honours

Club

; BIIK Kazygurt * Kazakhstani Women's Football Championship (5): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 * Kazakhstan Women's Cup (5): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Personal life

She is a supporter of London-based men's football club,

Chelsea F.C. Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England. The club was founded in 1905 and named after neighbouring area Chelsea. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football, pl ...

Adule is religious, and attributes her any plans in her future to God, saying "God has the final say in my life. I believe the Almighty God who made me to be here today will take me to the final place He made for me. Everything in life is all about the favour of God, I believe with His favour upon me, I will go far."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adule, Charity 1993 births Living people Women's association football forwards Nigerian women's footballers 21st-century Nigerian sportswomen Nigeria women's international footballers Rivers Angels F.C. players Segunda Federación (women) players SD Eibar Femenino players Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Bayelsa Queens F.C. players BIIK Kazygurt players Footballers from Warri