The Federation of International Football Association (Fifa) and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have celebrated with Francisca Ordega on her 27th birthday.
The striker was born in Gboko, Benue State, Nigeria and launched her professional football career with Nigeria Women's Premier League side Bayelsa Queens in 2008.
After leaving the Yenegoa outfit, Ordega joined Rivers Angels in 2011 before she sealed her first move abroad to Russian side Rossiyanka a year later, and continued her career at Swedish club Pitea in 2013.
In 2015, she joined Washington Spirit, where she had loan moves to Australia's Sydney and Spain's Atletico Madrid during her four-year campaign with the US' National Women's Soccer League team.