Ifeanyi Chiejine


Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine was a Nigerian football who played as a striker for the football team|national women's team]. She last played for SSVSM-Kairat Almaty in the Kazakhstani [women's football championship|Kazakhstani Championship]. She had also played for FC Indiana in USA's W-League (1995–2015)|W-League], KMF Kuopio and PK-35 Vantaa in Finland and Zvezda Perm in Russia.

International career

She had been a senior international, taking part in the 1999 FIFA [Women's World Cup|1999] where she held the record as the youngest female footballer to grace the World Cup until 2023, 2003 FIFA [Women's World Cup|2003] and 2007 World Cups and the 2000 [Summer">Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics">2000 [Summer Olympics|2000], participated in four CAF Women's Championship editions, winning three of them, and Football at the [2008 Summer Olympics - Women's tournament|2008] Summer Olympics. As of 2007, she had scored 15 goals in 61 games for Nigeria.

Death

She died on 21 August 2019 following a brief illness.