Gift Monday

Gift Nyakno Monday (born 9 December 2001) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish Liga F club UD Tenerife and the Nigeria women's national team.

Club career
In January 2021, Monday was named the league's Player of the Month for the second consecutive month. In March 2021, Monday scored a brace to lift FC Robo to a 2–1 win over the undefeated Rivers Angels. Monday inspired Bayelsa Queens to winning the 2021–22 league title and also finished as the season's top scorer.

In September 2022, Monday joined Spanish Liga F club UD Granadilla Tenerife.

International career
Monday competed at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France. In 2019, she captained the national team to its first gold medal in 12 years at the African Games after defeating Cameroon 3–1 on penalties. In February 2021, Monday was named to the senior national team squad ahead of the 2021 Turkish Women's Cup. She was part of the team that won the championship and was the first African team to do so. She scored the eighth goal in the team's 9–0 win over Equatorial Guinea.

On 16 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player Nigerian squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.

Honors

 * Individual
 * NWFL Premiership Player of the Month: December 2020, January 2021
 * NWFL Premiership Player of the Season: 2022


 * International
 * Turkish Women's Cup: 2021