Career
She is also a member and the captain of the Nigeria women"s national football team With the Nigeria national team she has participated in seven CAF Women"s Championship editions (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014), winning five of them (2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014). She also set a record by scoring nine overall goals during the tournament, and was named the of the tournament.
Nkwocha was voted African Women"s Football player of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2011 by Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Nkwocha has also participated in four Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup (2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015), as well as the Olympic tournaments of Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008. She played for Swedish side Sunnanå Saskatchewan in both the top division (Damallsvenskan) and the second division (Elitettan) leagues from 2007 until 2014.
In June 2008, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported that Nkwocha had announced her plans to retire in two years, and that after doing so she wants to continue to be involved in football by becoming a coach. As of 2012 she was still playing in Sweden"s second tier league.
Ahead of the 2015 season, 39-year-old Nkwocha left Sunnanå to join lower division (4th tier) Clemensnäs IF in a player-coach role.
She spent part of the previous season coaching boy"s football in Nigeria, but wanted to settle in Sweden after taking Swedish citizenship. Nkwocha is in partnership with former Turkey based Çanakkale Dardanelspor professional striker and now by Piteå IF playing Ghanaian football player Justice Tetteh Komey. International Nigeria Individual.