Florence Omagbemi

Florence Omagbemi
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-02-02) 2 February 1975 (age 50)
Place of birth Warri, Nigeria[1]
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Milligan Buffaloes[3]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001 Boston Breakers 8 (0)
2002 San Diego Spirit 6 (0)
International career
1991–2004 Nigeria
Managerial career
2016 Nigeria
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Florence Omagbemi (born 2 February 1975) is a Nigerian former football midfielder. She was part of the Nigeria women's national football team. She played in four FIFA Women's World Cups. She also played in many Africa Women Cup of Nations. She played at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was an assistant coach for the Nigeria women's national under-20 football team. In 2016, she became the interim coach of the Nigeria women's national side.

International playing career

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Omagbemi played for the Nigeria women's national football team for over 10 years. She played in four FIFA Women's World Cups.[4] She became the captain of her team. While captain, she won the Africa Women Cup of Nations in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004. She was also part of the Nigerian team in the 2000 Summer Olympics.[5]

Coaching career

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Omagbemi coached many American youth teams. She stopped doing this when she was asked to be the assistant coach for the Nigeria women's national under-20 football team. While she was assistant coach, the team reached the semifinals of the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The team lost in the semifinals to the United States. Omagbemi became an interim coach for the senior national side for the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations.[5]

A month before the start of the tournament, people learned that Omagbemi had not been paid by the Nigeria Football Federation. Because of this, the NFF said that she would be paid before the team left.[6]

On 3 December 2016 Florence Omagbemi became the first woman to win the Africa Women Cup of Nations as both a player and coach.

Honours

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Player

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Nigeria

Individual

Manager

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Individual

Notes

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  1. ↑ "Flo Omagbemi". Women's United Soccer Association. Archived from the original on 2 February 2003. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "Florence Omagbemi". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "Milligan Buffaloes 2022–23 Soccer Records" (PDF). Milligan Buffaloes. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Biography/Profile/History Of New Interim Coach of Super Falcons Florence Omagbemi". Daily Mail (Nigeria). 2016-07-10. Archived from the original on 2016-07-10. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ahmadu, Samuel (18 February 2016). "Florence Omagbemi appointed Super Falcons interim coach". Goal.com. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Okeleji, Oluwashina (31 October 2016). "Nigeria women's football coach goes unpaid for months". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "IFFHS All-time Africa Women's Dream Team". The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). 7 June 2021.

References

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