Equatorial Guinea women's national football team

Equatorial Guinea

Nickname(s)	Nzalang Nacional
Association	Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	UNIFFAC (Central Africa)
Head coach	Miguel Ángel Pozanco
Captain	Genoveva Añonma
Most caps	Genoveva Añonma (28)
Top scorer	Genoveva Añonma (15)
FIFA code	EQG
First colours Second colours Third colours
FIFA ranking
Current	52 1 (26 August 2016)
Highest	50 (September 2015)
Lowest	195 (December 1998)
First international
Equatorial Guinea 0–3 Gabon (Equatorial Guinea; June 10, 2000)
Biggest win
Equatorial Guinea 11–0 Benin Luxembourg 0–8 Equatorial Guinea (Hostert, Luxembourg; June 18, 2011)
Biggest defeat
Equatorial Guinea 0–3 Gabon (Equatorial Guinea; June 10, 2000) Gabon 4–1 Equatorial Guinea (Gabon; June 24, 2000) Angola 3–0 Equatorial Guinea (Angola; August 11, 2002)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2011)
Best result	Group Stage, (2011)
Africa Women Cup of Nations
Appearances	4 (first in 2006)
Best result	Winners, (2008 & 2012)

The Equatorial Guinea women's national football team is the women's national team for Equatorial Guinea. Their nickname is the Nzalang Nacional.

They defeated South Africa 2–1 in an Olympic Games Qualifier on February 18, 2007, but lost the return leg 4–2. In the 2008 Women's African Football Championship (which they hosted), they went undefeated in Group A which featured Cameroon, Congo, and Mali. They defeated Nigeria 1–0 in the semifinal and went on to win the championship beating South Africa 2–1. They became the first nation other than Nigeria to win the Women's African Football Championship. They made their debut in an international tournament at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, losing all three of their group stage matches against Norway, Australia and Brazil.

Equatorial Guinea is the third women's team (out of five) from the Confederation of African Football to qualify for a FIFA Women's World Cup (Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Côte d'Ivoire being the others).^[1]

Naturalised players controversy

Like the men's, Equatorial Guinea women's national team has courted controversy by recruiting foreign players and giving them citizenship despite having little or no ties to the country.

In women's case, the Equatoguinean Football Federation recruited players from Cameroon, Nigeria and Burkina Faso since 2006, from Brazil since 2008 and from another African countries since 2010. In recent years, some of the new recruited players (mainly from Nigeria) were renamed in the Equatoguinean passports they received, in an attempt by local authorities for they look like native Equatoguinean players, to the eyes of the referees.

Simporé's gender case

Between 2006 and 2010, Bilguissa and Salimata Simporé, a sibling duo from Burkina Faso, used to play for Equatorial Guinea - the first as a central defender and the latter as a centre forward. Beyond the mechanism by which they were naturalized, the main controversy arose whether they were actually two men. They had integrated the Equatorial Guinea's squads that won the 2008 African Women's Championship and reached the second place in the 2010 African Women's Championship, which allowed Equatorial Guinea to qualify for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Around April 2011, they were removed from national team by the Italian-born Brazilian coach Marcelo Frigerio, who had recently assumed, just a few months before participating in the World Cup. Since then, the Simporé siblings never were called-up. In 2015, Frigerio, now a former national team coach, told the Brazilian press ther are in fact men.^[2]

Honours

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Group Stage	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5
2015	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	Banned	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/8	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Olympics record

Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1996	Did Not Enter
2000	Did Not Enter
2004	Did Not Qualify
2008	Did Not Qualify
2012	Disqualified[3]
2016	Did Not Qualify
2020	Banned[4]
Total	0/6	0	0	0	0	0	0

Performance in Africa Women's Championship

Africa Women Cup of Nations
Year	Result	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	GF	GA
1991	Did Not Enter
1995	Did Not Enter
1998	Did Not Enter
2000	Did Not Qualify
2002	Did Not Qualify
2004	Did Not Qualify
2006	Group Stage	3	0	1	2	5	9
2008	Champions	5	5	0	0	11	4
2010	Runners-Up	5	3	1	1	11	8
2012	Champions	5	5	0	0	18	0
2014	Did Not Qualify
2016	Disqualified[5]
2018	Banned[5]
2020	Banned[5]
Total	2 Titles	18	13	2	3	45	21

Current Squad

The following players were called for two 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations Qualifying matches against Mali in April 2016.^[6]

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Miriam Silva da Paixão	25 February 1982			São Francisco Futebol Clube
13	GK	Dida	22 July 1991			Santos
	GK	Ruth Sunday[lower-alpha 1]	1 January 1986			Confluence Queens
2	DF	Adriana Parente	14 April 1980			Minas/Icesp
3	DF	Ghyslaine Salomé Nke Noah				Estrellas de Waiso
4	DF	Carol Carioca	18 February 1983			SE União
16	DF	Dúlcia Maria Davi	18 January 1982			Vitória das Tabocas
17	DF	Oluwatobiloba Windapo[lower-alpha 2]	1 January 1986			Confluence Queens
	DF	Uzoamaka Igwe[lower-alpha 3]				Bayelsa Queens
5	MF	Annette Jacky Messomo	1 March 1993			BIIK Kazygurt
6	MF	Vânia Cristina Martins	9 November 1980			Santa Teresa CD
9	MF	Dorine Chuigoué	29 December 1988			Estrellas de Waiso
11	MF	Camila Nobre^SUS	10 June 1988			Madrid CFF
14	MF	Jumária Barbosa de Santana	8 May 1979			São Francisco Futebol Clube
15	MF	Gloria Chinasa	8 December 1987			KF Vllaznia Shkodër
8	FW	Jade Boho	30 August 1986			Madrid CFF
10	FW	Genoveva Añonma ^RET (captain)	19 April 1989			Atlético Madrid
18	FW	Adriana Tiga	16 April 1983			SE União
7		Muriellynda Mendoua Abossolo				Estrellas de Waiso
12		Esperanza Mbang Mba				Estrellas de Waiso
19		Olivia Katsongo Nikieni				Inter Continental
20		Elena Obono Ncuadum Oyana				Estrellas de Bomudy
		Victoria Santo Besopo				Estrellas de Rebola

Notes

^SUS Player suspended by FIFA for 10 matches. ^RET Retired from national team.

Notes

1. She plays as Lucia Andeme Micha Mbengono
2. She plays as Susana Angono Ondo Oyana
3. She plays as Rita Andeme Obiang

See also

• Equatorial Guinea national football team
• Téclaire Bille

References

1. "BBC SPORT | Football | African | Equatorial Guinea lift AWC trophy". BBC News. 2008-11-30. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
2. De Matos, José Edgar; Bianchini, Vladimir (11 September 2015). "Técnico do São Paulo conta como barrou dois homens em seleção feminina às vésperas de Copa" [São Paulo coach tells how he banned two men in women's national team on the World Cup eve] (in Portuguese). ESPN. Retrieved 29 October 2016. Before taking the national team, I searched on the internet and I saw there was a charge that, in the African Cup of Nations, two players of the national team would be actually men. It would be a worldwide scandal I had no idea until then. I asked for the two twin sisters, who had not been presented and who were with the men's Olympic team, concentrated in a hotel. Then came two guys and they prodded me: "These are the two sisters". I replied, "You are joking, they are men". Then they trained and I asked the doctor to examine them, because I was sure that they were men. He was there and he found that they were men. Even they had been champions of the African Cup and everything else. At the time, I asked to send them back to Burkina Faso - they were naturalized - and to talk that one of them had hurt the knee and the other sister had gone along because she did not want to stay away. I cut the duo from the national team, as everyone expected their presence. When (this situation) arrived at the time of the interview, I needed to talk about that
3. "E. Guinea women's team disqualified from Olympics". Usatoday.Com. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2013-08-15.
4. "Equatorial Guinea expelled from Women's Olympic Football Tournament 2020". FIFA.com. 11 April 2016.
5. "Equatorial Guinea disqualified, Mali in". CAF. 4 August 2016.
6. "Nzalang Nacional Femenino preparado para el partido contra Mali" (in Spanish). Federación Ecuatoguineana de Fútbol. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

External links

• Official website
• FIFA profile