To mark International Women’s Day, Nigerian female football
star, Ebi Onome celebrates her remarkable recovery from a hand fracture with
sizzling new photos.
Onome sustained a hand fracture in the last minutes of the
final game against the Lioness of Cameroun in December, 2016. The photos were
released on her behalf by her management, Temple Management Company. More pix inside
Ebi has used her time off to good effect. She recently
started a female football development campaign across major major secondary and
primary schools in Lagos. Among the schools she is expected to visit are her
Alma Mater, Awodi Ora Secondary School in Ajegunle, where her extraordinary
story began several years ago. Others are British International School (BIS),
Queens College, Yaba, Dowen College, Lekki and Holy child College, Ikoyi.
About Ebi Onome
Ebi Onome is a talented footballer and Super Falcons of
Nigeria player who has appeared a record four times at the Africa Women’s Cup
of Nations (AWCON). She played a major role to help Nigeria win their 10th
AWCON title.
Her professional football career began when she played for
Bayelsa Queens FC in the Nigerian Women's Championship before moving to Piteå
IF and Djurgårdens IF in Sweden's Damallsvenskan.
She then played for Turkish sides Düvenciler Lisesispor and
Ataşehir Belediyespor at the First League. She made her Champions League debut
in August 2012 while playing for Ataşehir Belediyespor.
She returned to the Swedish Damallsvenskan in 2013 to play
for Sunnanå SK before going to Belarus to play for FC Minsk in the Belarusian
Premier League. While there, she was a member of the team that won the
Belarusian Premier League, the Belarusian Women's Cup and the Belarusian
Women's Super-Cup twice.
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