Ifeoma Dieke Football player

Ifeoma Nnenna Dieke (born 25 February 1981) is an American-born, Scottish football defender, currently playing for Vittsjö GIK of the Swedish Damallsvenskan. Since 2004, she has appeared on 90 occasions for the Scotland women's national football team. Dieke was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Nigerian parents, moving to Cumbernauld in Scotland when she was three years old. Her first name "Ifeoma" means "Good thing" in the Igbo language. Dieke and fellow Scot Kim Little were the only non-English players selected in the Great Britain squad for the 2012 London Olympics.

Personal facts

Ifeoma Dieke
Birth dateFebruary 25, 1981
Birth place
Amherst Massachusetts , Massachusetts , United States
Height (meters)1.651

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Football player

position
Defender (association football)
teams
FIU Panthers
Vittsjö GIK
Atlanta Beat (WUSA)
Scotland women's national football team
Boston Breakers
Great Britain women's Olympic football team
Apollon Limassol
QBIK
Chicago Red Stars
Kristianstads DFF

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Ifeoma Dieke on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://web.archive.org/web/20040817235153/http:/wusa.com/team/?id=30&zone=players&player_id=1086
  2. http://www.fiu.edu/~athletic/wshome/profiles2001/dieke.htm
  3. http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/football_player_profile.cfm?page=110&playerID=40976&squadID=2
  4. http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/football_player_profile.cfm?page=2492&playerID=40976
  5. http://www.womensprosoccer.com/chicago/team/player-bios/dieke-ifeoma