Osinachi Marvis Ohale (born 21 December 1991) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a centre back or right back for Liga MX Femenil side Pachuca and the Nigeria women's national team.

Club career

Ohale played for Houston Dash in the National Women's Soccer League throughout the 2014 season before returning home to Nigeria with Rivers Angels.

Osinachi Ohale

In 2016, she joined Swedish Damallsvenskan side Vittsjö GIK, playing for the club on 22 occasions before transferring to Växjö DFF eighteen months later in August 2018.

Osinachi Ohale

On 11 September 2019, she signed for Spanish side CD Tacón on a permanent transfer, playing her first game for the club in a 3–0 victory over Sporting de Huelva just three days later.

Osinachi Ohale

On 30 July 2020, Ohale signed for A.S. Roma Women, the Nigeria international parted ways with Spanish side CD Tacon (now renamed Real Madrid), last month (June, 2020) after the expiration of her contract with the Primera Iberdrola outfit. She joined the Serie A Women's League outfit on a one-year deal for an undisclosed fee. Reacting to her historic move, Ohale told the club website: "I chose Roma because of so many things; so many amazing things about the club, about this city and this country that interested me". "I felt like it would be a great thing for me, to explore and to experience new things and a new challenge".

International career

She represented Nigeria in the African Women's Championship tournaments of 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018. She has won the competition on all four occasions.

She was also on the Nigerian squads of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011, 2015 and 2019.

On 16 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Nigerian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.

In their second group stage match against host country Australia, Ohale was solid in defence for the Super Falcons and went on to score the second goal of the game which gave Nigeria the lead against the hosts. Her performance in the match earned her the Player of the Match award.

Career statistics

International goals

Honours

Delta Queens

Nigerian Women's Championship: 2011, 2012

Nigeria

Women's Africa Cup of Nations: 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018

Individual

Women's Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament: 2022

IFFHS CAF Women's Team of the Decade 2011–2020

IFFHS CAF Women's Team of The Year: 2022

References

External links

Osinachi Ohale at BDFútbol

Profile at Houston Dash

1991 births

Living people

Sportspeople from Owerri

Nigerian women's footballers

Women's association football central defenders

Women's association football fullbacks

Rivers Angels F.C. players

Delta Queens F.C. players

Houston Dash players

Vittsjö GIK players

Växjö DFF players

Real Madrid Femenino players

AS Roma (women) players

Madrid CFF players

National Women's Soccer League players

Damallsvenskan players

Liga F players

Liga MX Femenil players

Serie A (women's football) players

Nigeria women's international footballers

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players

Nigerian expatriate women's footballers

Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in the United States

Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States

Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden

Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden

Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Italy

Expatriate women's footballers in Italy

Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Spain

Expatriate women's footballers in Spain

Deportivo Alavés Gloriosas players

C.F. Pachuca (women) footballers

Igbo sportspeople

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players