Genoveva Añonman

Añonman, nicknamed Ayo,^[6] played in her country and South Africa before signing for Bundesliga team USV Jena in 2009.^[4] She was the team's top scorer in both seasons she spent in Jena. Following the 2011 World Cup she signed for defending champions Turbine Potsdam. She became the first foreigner to win the Bundesliga top-scorer award when she scored 22 goals in the 2011–12 season.^[7] In 2012, she was named African Women Footballer of the Year.^[8]

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.^[6][9] She was waived by Portland Thorns FC in October 2015.^[10] In 2016, she played for Suwon FMC WFC in the South Korean WK-League.^[11]

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.^[12] 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.^[13][14]

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.^[15] 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.^[16]

Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	24 August 2002	Estadio La Paz, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Angola	1–0	1–3	2002 African Women's Championship qualification
2	3 November 2006	Oghara Township Stadium, Oghara, Nigeria	Algeria		3–3	2006 African Women's Championship
3	15 November 2008	Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Cameroon		1–0	2008 African Women's Championship
4	18 November 2008		Congo	4–2	5–2
5				5–2
6	21 November 2008		Mali	2–1	2–1
7	25 November 2008		Nigeria	1–0	1–0
8	29 November 2008		South Africa	2–1	2–1
9	23 May 2010	Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia	Namibia		5–1	2010 African Women's Championship qualification
10	8 November 2010	Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa	Ghana	1–0	3–1	2010 African Women's Championship
11	17 April 2011	Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Cameroon		0–3 [note 1]	2012 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
12	17 June 2011	Stade Jos Becker, Niederanven, Luxembourg	Luxembourg	4–0	8–0	Friendly
13	3 July 2011	Ruhrstadion, Bochum, Germany	Australia	1–1	2–3	2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
14				2–3
15	25 June 2012	Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	DR Congo	2–1	2–1	Friendly
16	31 October 2012			1–0	6–0	2012 African Women's Championship
17				4–0
18				5–0
19	3 November 2012		Senegal		5–0
20	7 November 2012		Cameroon	2–0	2–0
21	11 November 2012		South Africa	3–0	4–0
22	23 May 2014	Stade Robert Champroux, Abidjan, Ivory Coast	Ivory Coast	1–0	1–1	2014 African Women's Championship qualification
23	2 August 2015	Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea	Nigeria	2–1	2–1	2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
24	6 April 2016	Stade Mamadou Konaté, Bamako, Mali	Mali	1–0	1–1	2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

• Africa Women Cup of Nations: 2008, 2012

Notes

Citations

• "FIFA Player Statistics: ANONMAN". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011.
• Genoveva Añonman – Israel Football Association league player details
• Genoveva Añonman – Profile on soccerdonna.de (in German)
• Genoveva Añonman at FutbolEsta.com (in Spanish)