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I’m great at football, boasts Nigeria’s most decorated female footballer of all time

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I’m great at football, boasts Nigeria’s most decorated female footballer of all time

The document five-time Africa Girls Footballer of the 12 months award winner is broadly thought-about a dwelling legend of the sport

Tremendous Falcons and Barcelona ahead Asisat Oshoala has thumped her chest to acknowledge her brilliance on a soccer pitch.

Solely final week, Oshoala scored with an beautiful chip as Barcelona demolished Villarreal 4-1 on matchday three of the 2022-23 season of the Primera Division Femenina.

And on Saturday afternoon, Oshoala featured for an hour as Barcelona cruised to a convincing 7-0 conquer Madrid CF on the Estadi Johan Cruyff.

Oshoala was not among the many targets, however she was nonetheless so impressed together with her efficiency that she took to her Twitter web page afterwards to applaud herself.

“From the motherfuckin ghetto so far LOL. I’m good at this shit n ain’t no person gon inform me in any other case,” the previous Arsenal striker wrote.

Final season, Oshoala made 19 Primera División Femenina appearances, scored 20 targets, and offered one help to complete because the division’s joint-top goalscorer.

Her targets have been essential to serving to Barcelona declare their sixth league title. Oshoala has three of these winners’ medals in her trophy cupboard.

And because of her plain brilliance in Spain, Oshoala gained the Africa Girls Footballer of the 12 months award for a fifth time, greater than anybody in historical past.

That isn’t the one mark the previous Liverpool striker has made since becoming a member of Barcelona in 2019.

Oshoala is just not solely the primary African (and Nigerian) participant to attain a objective in a UEFA Girls’s Champions League ultimate but additionally the primary African girl to win the UEFA Champions League.

After turning into the primary African girl to win the Primera División’s Pichichi Trophy, Oshoala, in August 2022, turned the primary African girl nominated for the Ballon d’Or.

Oshoala, IFFHS CAF Finest Girl Participant of the Decade 2011–2020, has additionally lifted the Girls Africa Cup of Nations thrice.