Asisat Oshoala Receives 2022 ICC Award For Her Contributions To The Growth Of Women’s Football

Barcelona Femení and Tremendous Falcons ahead Asisat Oshoala has been acknowledged by the Ladies’s Worldwide Champions Cup (WICC) for her position in advancing girls’s soccer.

Oshoala is considered one of solely two energetic skilled soccer gamers named to the third annual WICC Greatest XI. The opposite participant nominated is Colombian teenage star, Linda Caicedo.

The 2022 WICC Greatest XI which was introduced on Monday, consists of the athletes, executives, journalists, coaches, homeowners, and activists who’re doing probably the most to advance girls’s soccer.

Susie Fiore, the top of the WICC, acknowledged Oshoala’s and the opposite awardees’ contributions by saying:

“Now in its third 12 months, the WICC Greatest XI continues to cement itself as one of the crucial coveted awards in girls’s soccer.

“The winners work tirelessly to champion the ladies’s sport, usually regardless of nice obstacles.

“With out the contributions of the 2022 honorees, the ladies’s sport wouldn’t have the explosive development that we’re seeing as we speak. It’s an honor to share and rejoice their extraordinary efforts with followers everywhere in the world.”

In June of this 12 months, Oshoala established the Asisat Oshoala Academy in Lagos, Nigeria. In accordance with her, the soccer conservatoire established in collaboration with Nike and Ladies Win is meant to offer younger women in her group with entry to sport and schooling.

Additionally this 12 months, Oshoala grew to become the primary African lady to be nominated for the Ballon d’or. She completed sixteenth within the voting.

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