Faith Michael ( Ikidi; born 28 February 1987) is a Nigerian

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who plays as a defender for

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club

Piteå IF Piteå Idrottsförening (), commonly known as Piteå IF (), is a Swedish football club located in Piteå that currently competes in Sweden's top-division women's league, Damallsvenskan, which it won in 2018. History The sports club Piteå IF ...

and the Nigeria women's national team.

Early life

Born in

Port Harcourt Port Harcourt (Pidgin: ''Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa)'' is the capital and largest city of Rivers State in Nigeria. It is the fifth most populous city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Benin. It lies along the Bonny River and is locate ...

, Ikidi was raised in

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Club career

In 2006, Ikidi was one of three Nigerian players to be the first set of Africans to play in the Swedish Championship while playing for

QBIK QBIK is a Swedish football team from Karlstad. In 2005 they achieved promotion to the Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leag ...

. In December 2015, Ikidi signed a two-year extension with Piteå.

International career

Ikiri has represented Nigeria on the senior national team since 2004. In November 2006, she helped the team win its fifth

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after defeating

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1–0 in the final.

Honors and awards

International

Nigeria *

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Winner:

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Team
''with Linköping FC'' * Damallsvenskan: 2009 * Super Cup Women: 2010 Individual * Damallsvenskan Defender of the Year: 2015 Team
''with Piteå'' * Damallsvenskan: 2018

Personal life

Ikidi married husband Nick Michael on 12 December 2015.

References

External links

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Piteå profile

Linkoping profile
1987 births Living people Footballers from Port Harcourt Nigerian women's footballers 21st-century Nigerian sportswomen Women's association football defenders Klepp IL players QBIK players Eskilstuna United DFF players Linköpings FC players Piteå IF (women) players Damallsvenskan players Olympic footballers for Nigeria Nigeria women's international footballers 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Nigerian expatriate women's footballers Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Bayelsa Queens F.C. players {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio-stub