Gift Monday Explained
Gift Monday |
Fullname: | Gift Nyakno Monday |
Birth Date: | 2001 12, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Akwa Ibom, Nigeria |
Height: | 1.68 m[1] |
Position: | Striker |
Currentclub: | UD Tenerife |
Clubnumber: | 24 |
Years1: | 2016–2018 |
Clubs1: | COD United Amazons |
Caps1: | 25 |
Goals1: | 18 |
Years2: | 2018–2021 |
Clubs2: | FC Robo |
Goals2: | 13 |
Years3: | 2021–2022 |
Clubs3: | Bayelsa Queens |
Years4: | 2022– |
Clubs4: | UD Tenerife |
Caps4: | 27 |
Goals4: | 5 |
Nationalyears1: | 2018–2020 |
Nationalteam1: | Nigeria U20 |
Nationalcaps1: | 3 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Nationalyears2: | 2019– |
Nationalteam2: | Nigeria |
Nationalcaps2: | 10 |
Nationalgoals2: | 2 |
Pcupdate: | 5 December 2023 |
Ntupdate: | 18 December 2022 |
Gift Nyakno Monday (born 9 December 2001) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish Liga F club UD Tenerife and the Nigeria women's national team.
Club career
In January 2021, Monday was named the league's Player of the Month for the second consecutive month.[2] In March 2021, Monday scored a brace to lift FC Robo to a 2–1 win over the undefeated Rivers Angels.[3] Monday inspired Bayelsa Queens to winning the 2021–22 league title and also finished as the season's top scorer.[4]
In September 2022, Monday joined Spanish Liga F club UD Granadilla Tenerife.[5]
International career
Monday competed at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France. In 2019, she captained the national team to its first gold medal in 12 years at the African Games after defeating Cameroon 3–1 on penalties.[6] [7] In February 2021, Monday was named to the senior national team squad ahead of the 2021 Turkish Women's Cup. She was part of the team that won the championship and was the first African team to do so.[8] She scored the eighth goal in the team's 9–0 win over Equatorial Guinea.[9]
On 16 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Nigerian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.[10]
Honors
- Individual
- NWFL Premiership Player of the Month: December 2020,[11] January 2021[2]
- NWFL Premiership Player of the Season: 2022
- International
Notes and References
- Web site: Profile of Gift Monday . soccerway.com . Soccerway . 9 July 2023.
- Web site: Gift Monday Receives Nigeria Women League Player Of The Month Award . Afrinews247 . 17 April 2021 . January 7, 2021 . 18 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210418103629/https://afrinews247.com/2021/01/07/gift-monday-receives-nigeria-women-league-player-of-the-month-award/ . dead .
- Web site: Monday Gift inspired FC Robo ends Rivers Angels unbeaten run . Kick442.com . 17 April 2021 . 18 March 2021 . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417003934/https://www.kick442.com/monday-gift-inspired-fc-robo-ends-rivers-angels-unbeaten-run/ . dead .
- Web site: Gift Monday gifts Bayelsa Queens NWFL Premiership Super Six title. The Punch. 22 May 2022.
- Web site: Gift Monday joins Tenerife from Robo Queens. Adefala. Tope. SportsRation. 5 September 2022.
- Web site: Know Your NWFL Players: Gift Monday of FC Robo Queens . Kick442 . 17 April 2021 . 6 May 2020 . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417003934/https://www.kick442.com/know-your-nwfl-players-gift-monday-of-fc-robo-queens/ . dead .
- Web site: Saliu . Mo . African Games champion Monday Gift dreams Falcons debut . footballlive.ng . 17 April 2021 . 2 September 2019 . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417003935/https://www.footballlive.ng/african-games-champion-monday-gift-dreams-falcons-debut/ . dead .
- Web site: Nigeria 9-0 Equatorial Guinea: Super Falcons clinch Turkish Women's Cup in style . Goal.com . 17 April 2021 . 23 February 2021.
- Web site: Equatorial Guinea 0 Nigeria 9 : Barcelona's Oshoala Nets Four, Sevilla's Payne . Allnigeria.com . 17 April 2021 . 23 February 2021.
- Web site: Ryan Dabbs . 2023-06-14 . Nigeria Women's World Cup 2023 squad: most recent call ups . 2023-06-20 . fourfourtwo.com . en.
- Web site: NWFL Premiership Player and Manager for December Revealed. . NWFL . 17 April 2021 . 4 January 2021 . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417003933/https://thenwfl.com/gift-monday-moses-aduku-named-nwfl-premiership-player-and-manager-for-december/ . dead .