Former Guingamp captain Desire Oparanozie

Desire Oparanozie Nigerian female footballer

• She is a Nigerian footballer
• She plays as a forward
• She plays for the Chinese Women’s Super League and the Nigerian national team

Who is Desire Oparanozie?

Desire is a football player who plays in the Chinese Women’s Super League and the Nigerian national team, and her current net worth is $5 million.

The player was born in Owerri, Nigeria on December 17 1993. Let’s get to know her better

Oparanozie’s Biography

How rich is Desire Oparanozie?

Desire Oparanozie is among the richest players from Nigeria and her current net worth is about $5 million. She earned the money being a professional Association football player.

Her earnings are in the form of contracts, salaries, wages and bonuses.

Personal Life

Desire was born in Owerri, Nigeria on December 17 1993 to her Nigerian parents Krasimir Stoyanov-her father. She has a sister by the name of Evelyn Nwabuoku and is married to Velislav Rusev and they do not have children yet.

Desire Oparanozie. Photo/The Guardian Nigeria

Her father is the greatest role model in her life as he taught her all the morals she upholds today. As her national team captain, Desire would never entertain nonsense something she said that her father taught her never to elude.

When she began her career, the father gave his blessing but the mother didn’t see the need for a female child to play football. In short, she saw it as a taboo.

On realizing that her mother was going to stop her, she would hide it from her and lie that she was going for tutorials or visiting a friend as she went for training. That went on until when the mother was told of her daughter’s talent, she also began seeing her manifestations.

As a young girl, her role model was Mercy Adike, a female soccer star from Nigeria and she enjoyed watching her way back.

Her advice for upcoming female soccer stars is that they should be focused and try not to be distracted. She said they should make sure they don’t rush into signing contracts because that is where they go wrong, and that mar the career of an emerging player.

Her fans named a bus station after her in Guingamp, France after her long stay at the French football club.

What is Desire Oparanozie Foundation all about?

Desire Oparanozie Foundation is a charitable Non-Governmental organization that is all about empowering the youth and especially the girl child.

Its focus is on the female child and the plan is to have many girls know and identify their potential. The motive for founding the organization was based on the challenges she faced in her early career life locally and internationally.

Gender discrimination in the sport was a challenge she felt that should be stopped through the initiative.

Career

Desire started her career at Bayelsa Queens in the Nigerian Women’s Championship and then moved to Delta Queens. She then spent some time on a loan at Duvenciler Lisesispor in the Turkish Women’s First Football League before returning to Delta Queens.

The player joined Rossiyanka from the Russian Women’s Football Championship where she scored one goal at the UEFA Women’s champion league.

In the following season, she joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg on a two-year contract. In the first season half, she appeared in one game mostly playing for Wolfsburg’s second team.

On the other half, she left for Ataşehir Belediyespor in the Turkish Women’s First Football League.

During the next season, desire joined Guingamp of the French Division 1 Feminine and was named the captain of the club and before the end of the season, she announced the signing of a two-year contract.

Last year, Oparanozie joined Chinese Women’s Super League club Wuhan Jianghan University for the season.

Desire Oparanozie. Photo/The Guardian Nigeria

As a junior, international, Desire scored two goals in the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and has been a regular member of the Nigerian national team participating in three FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments.

She captained the Nigeria Women’s national team at the 2019 Women’s World Cup. She played a major role in calling up for equal pay as their male counterparts.

Desire has also been part of the Nigerian squads of the African Women’s Championship in four tournaments winning all.

She was named in the squad that was playing at the FIFA Women’s World Cup this year.