Ini-Abasi Anefiok Umotong (an haife ta a ranar 15 ga watan Mayun shekarar 1994) ita yar wasan ƙwallan kafa ta ƙasar Burtaniya da ke buga ƙwallon ƙafa[1]a ƙungiyar Damallsvenskan Växjö da kuma theasar Nijeriya .
An haife ta a Calabar, Nijeriya, Umotong tare da iyalinta sun koma Birmingham, Ingila lokacin da take shekara ɗaya. Ita ce ƙarama cikin ofan uwanta shida da Dr Ben Anefiok da Grace Umotong na Ikono a jihar Akwa Ibom suka haifa. Ta fara wasan kwallon kafa tana da shekara biyar kuma a makarantar Firamare ce inda Birmingham City ta ganta a shekara ta 2003. Daga baya ta tafi Makarantar Hanyoyi Hudu ta Sarki Edward VI.
Ta samu kiranta na farko ne zuwa ga Super Falcons a watan Fabrairu a shekara ta 2015 lokacin da koci Edwin Okon ya gayyaci 'yan wasa 36 zuwa sansanin don shirya shirye-shiryen wasannin neman cancantar buga dukkan kasashen Afirka karo na 11, wasannin neman tikitin wasannin Olamfik na shekara ta 2016 da kuma FIFA karo na 7 na FIFA na Kofin Duniya .[2] Karatuttukan ilimin tattalin arziki da ilimin kimiya na jami'ar Southampton sun tsallake makonni biyu na farko na sansanin a Abuja saboda karatunta.[3]
Bayan isowa bayan makonni biyu, Umotong ta yi alƙawarin fara aiki kusan nan da nan a matsayinta na mai maye gurbin ƙarshe a cikin zana 1-1 da aka yi da ƙungiyar malanta, [4] nuna kwazo na gaskiya a cikin burinta na yin ƙungiyar Kanada a shekara ta 2015 . Ta bi shi da wata manufa lokacin da ta shigo minti 20 a wani wasan tune da Nigeria Women Premier League, Confluence Queens,[5]kafin ta zama 'yar wasan Portsmouth ta farko da ta fito cikin cikakkiyar kasa da kasa bayan da ta zama ta 33- karon farko da Najeriya ta buga a wasan farko na neman cancantar shiga gasar cin kofin Afirka da Mali a Bamako . Daga karshe kuma an saka ta cikin jerin ‘yan wasa 23 da za su buga gasar cin kofin duniya a Kanada[6]amma ba ta taka rawar gani ba a cikin wasanni uku na rukuni na Najeriya saboda Zakarun Afirka sun kasa tsallakewa zuwa matakin bugawa.
Ini-Abasi Umotong
A watan Janairun shekarar 2019 a Gasar Kasashe huɗu a China, Umotong ta ci ƙwallo ta farko a Super Falcons. Ta fito ne daga kujerar da aka maye gurbin ta yi rajistar kwallon karshe a wasan da suka doke Romania da ci 4-1. Ta ce "Daya daga cikin fitattun lokuta na aikina,"[7]
Umotong ta fara taka rawar gani a karon farko (2014 2015) a Portsmouth ta bude hanyar aikinta na kasa da kasa, bayan kwallayenta na cin kwallaye ya jagoranci kungiyar mata ta Firimiya ta Kudancin Division ta lashe Kofin Hampshire County na bakwai a jere [8] da kuma gasar laliga, yayin da ya rage samun ci gaba zuwa gasar cin kofin kwallon kafa ta mata ta mata 2. Tare da kwallaye 29 a wasannin laliga 25 da kofin, Umotong ya zama dan wasan da yafi zira kwallaye a raga ga Pompey.
Umotong (hagu) yana bugawa Brighton & Hove Albion wasa da Manchester United a watan Fabrairun 2019
A watan Fabrairun shekara ta 2016, Umotong ya bar Portsmouth zuwa kulob din FA WSL 2 Oxford United . Manajan Oxford Les Taylor ya yi murna da sanya hannu da aka yi: "Ini dan wasan gaba ne wanda ya mallaki karfi da kuma saurin gudu." [9]Ta ci wa Portsmouth kwallaye 25 a farkon sashin a shekarar 2015 zuwa 2016.[10] Tare da Oxford Umotong ya ci gaba da zira kwallaye a kai a kai, inda ya kammala FA WSL 2 da ya fi kowa zira kwallaye 13 a raga a wasanni 19, kafin ya ƙara ƙwallaye hudu a wasanni bakwai da ya buga a jerin Wasannin bazara na FA WSL .[11]
Bayan an canza sheka zuwa Brighton & Hove Albion a watan Yulin shekara ta 2017, [12] Umotong ya zira kwallaye takwas a raga don taimakawa Seagulls kammalawa ta biyu a cikin rukuni na biyu da aka sake sanya sunansa (wanda yanzu aka sani da Gasar Mata ta FA ). Lokacin da Brighton yayi nasarar neman izinin mallakar kamfani a cikin rukunin farko, Umotong na ɗaya daga cikin playersan wasan da ke ƙwallon ƙafa da za a ci gaba da kasancewa. Ta yaba da tasirin kocin Brighton Hope Powell, tana mai yaba tsohon kocin na Ingila da ci gaba matuka a wasan nata.[13]
Kafin ta zama cikakken ɗan kwallon kafa tare da Brighton, Umotong ta haɗu da aikin ƙwallon ƙafa tare da karatunta na digiri na Tattalin Arziki a Jami'ar Southampton . Ta kammala karatun ta ne tare da karramawa ajin farko kuma tayi ikirarin cewa Eniola Aluko ne ya bata wahayi.[14]