Samantha Akinyi Okeya (born 6 January 1995) is a Kenyan professional
footballer
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who plays as a
goalkeeper
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for Makolander Ladies FC and the
Kenya women's national team.
Club career
Samantha Akinyi joined the
Mathare Youths Sports Association (MYSA) in 2002, where she was playing for Ruaraka zone Babadogo United Ladies.
In December 2011 she
transferred to National Youth Talent Academy, which later joined the Kenya Women's League as Matuu Girls and emerge the title holders that season, later in the long run she joined Kenya Methodist University majorly known as KEMU QUEENS the 2015 League winners, she also spend some time with Spedag Fc that was so far dominating the league then. In 2018 She joined the reigning champions Vihiga Queens in the Kenya
Women Premier League. where she helped the team win the league 2018-2019,emerging the best goal keeper for the team that year
She is currently featuring for Makolander LFC .
International career
She was the starting goalkeeper for Kenya in a
2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification match against
Equatorial Guinea
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. She represented Kenya at the
2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations
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,
and was the goalkeeper in the match against
Ghana
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.
See also
*
List of Kenya women's international footballers
This is a non-exhaustive list of Kenya women's international footballers – association football players who have appeared at least once for the senior Kenya women's national football team.
See also
* Kenya women's national football team ...
References
1995 births
Living people
Kenyan women's footballers
21st-century Kenyan sportswomen
Women's association football goalkeepers
Kenya women's international footballers
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