Leicester-born Ashleigh Plumptre is the new fans favourite since making her official debut for Nigeria on Friday, February 18, against Ivory Coast women’s national team in Abuja.
She helped the Super Falcons to a clean sheet with her 5-star performance that earned her standing ovation and nickname ‘oyinbo’ by the fans.
Plumptre has played for England’s U-15, U-17, U-19, and U-23 teams but she publicly declared her interest in playing for Nigeria in 2021.
She told the BBC, “What it will mean for me as somebody who is British born but with Nigerian heritage is huge. People look at me and they think I’m tanned and that I’ve been on holiday, they don’t think that I’m Nigerian.
“I don’t think that should be significant in saying whether somebody is Nigerian or not because it’s in your blood, it’s not about what you look like.”
On Wednesday, Nigeria’s Super Falcons did the double over the Lady Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire to qualify for their 12th consecutive Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON) slated for July in Morocco.
Ashleigh Plumptre once again once impressive and helped keep another clean sheet despite commiting a penalty in the game, the fans were in awe and couldn’t get enough of her master touches as showed off her victory dance to chants of ‘Oyinbo’ from fans.
Her mum is full British, her father is half Nigerian from a British mother and Nigerian father, but her paternal grandfather is full blown Isalẹ-Eko (Lagos Island) Yoruba man.
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