Genoveva Añonman

Club career Añonman, nicknamed Ayo, played in her country and South Africa before signing for Bundesliga team USV Jena in 2009. In 2012, she was named African Women Footballer of the Year.

On 24 February 2015, it was announced that Añonman signed for the Portland Thorns for the 2015 National Women's Soccer League season, joining after the completion of that year's World Cup. She was waived by Portland Thorns FC in October 2015. In 2016, she played for Suwon FMC WFC in the South Korean WK-League.

International career Añonman was part of the Equatorial Guinea football team that won the 2008 African Women's Championship at home and finished runners up in South Africa two years later. After the 2010 African Women's Championship final, she and two other Equatoguinean players had been accused of being male by opponents. She rejected the allegations and was shown by a gender test to be female, wherein she was required to strip naked to demonstrate her gender.

Añonman played in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, scoring Equatorial Guinea's only two goals in the tournament, in a 3–2 loss against Australia. She was included in the All-Star Team, becoming the first African player to earn this distinction. She won a second African Women's Championship in 2012, again at home.

International goals Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 24 August 2002 Estadio La Paz, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 1–0 2002 African Women's Championship qualification 3 November 2006 Oghara Township Stadium, Oghara, Nigeria 2006 African Women's Championship 15 November 2008 Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 2008 African Women's Championship 18 November 2008 5–2 21 November 2008 25 November 2008 29 November 2008 2–1 23 May 2010 Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia 2010 African Women's Championship qualification 8 November 2010 Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa 1–0 2010 African Women's Championship 17 April 2011 Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea 2012 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament 17 June 2011 Stade Jos Becker, Niederanven, Luxembourg Friendly 3 July 2011 Ruhrstadion, Bochum, Germany 2–3 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup 25 June 2012 Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Friendly 31 October 2012 6–0 2012 African Women's Championship 5–0 3 November 2012 7 November 2012 11 November 2012 23 May 2014 Stade Robert Champroux, Abidjan, Ivory Coast 2014 African Women's Championship qualification 2 August 2015 Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 6 April 2016 Stade Mamadou Konaté, Bamako, Mali 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

Honors and awards National team Africa Women Cup of Nations: 2008, 2012