Official: Nigeria’s World Cup record-maker joins Levante

The four-time African champion has accomplished a transfer to Spain after ending her second spell in Belarus

Tremendous Falcons captain Ebi Onome has signed for Spanish top-flight campaigners FC Levante Las Planas after quitting Belarusian giants FC Minsk.

Onome introduced the event on her official Twitter web page on Thursday, September 29. The veteran Nigerian centre-back will be part of worldwide teammate Rita Chikwelu on the Spanish membership.

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— ONOME EBI (@EBIONOME) September 29, 2022

Earlier than arriving in Spain, Onome performed in Belarus, China, Turkey, and Sweden after leaving Nigeria for Europe in 2009.

The previous Bayelsa Queens star received the 2014 Belarusian league and cup double with FC Minsk and two Turkish girls’s league titles with Ataşehir Belediyespor.

Onome’s influence on the Tremendous Falcons is much more telling.

The Lagos-born defensive kingpin has been part of the Nigerian girls’s nationwide workforce setup since 2003.

Onome has represented Nigeria at six editions of the African Girls’s Championship, profitable an unbelievable 4 titles.

In 2019, Onome turned the primary African footballer (male or feminine) to play in 5 FIFA World Cup tournaments. She is on target to increase that report when the Tremendous Falcons kick off their World Cup marketing campaign subsequent yr.

And at 39, Onome is just not slowing down and has determined to check her qualities within the Spanish Girls’s Championship.