Nigeria’s most decorated female star wins 2022 Women’s ICC award

The Nigeria worldwide footballer has added a brand new honour to her ever-growing shelf of laurels

Tremendous Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala has been honoured by the Ladies’s Worldwide Champions Cup for her function in advancing ladies’s soccer.

Oshoala was named to the third annual WICC Finest XI on Monday, with the Barcelona ahead becoming a member of England nationwide crew coach Sarina Wiegman, journalists Jeff Kassouf and Anna Kessel, U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone and Ally Chief Advertising and marketing Officer Andrea Brimmer on the award listing.

Recognising the contribution of Oshoala and the opposite awardees, the pinnacle of the WICC, Susie Fiore mentioned, “The winners work tirelessly to champion the ladies’s recreation, typically regardless of nice obstacles.

“With out the contributions of the 2022 honorees, the ladies’s recreation wouldn’t have the explosive progress that we’re seeing right now.”

Asisat Oshoala’s legacy

Oshoala is Nigeria’s most adorned girl footballer in historical past.

The primary African girl to play within the English league, Oshoala featured for Liverpool and Arsenal, profitable the 2015 Ladies’s FA Cup with the Gunners.

A file five-time winner of the African Ladies’s Footballer of the Yr award, Oshoala was the primary African to attain a objective in a UEFA Ladies’s Champions League ultimate.

Final 12 months, the 28-year-old grew to become the primary African girl to win the UEFA Champions League.

Oshoala can be the primary African girl to win the Primera División’s Pichichi Trophy.

In August 2022, she grew to become the primary African girl nominated to the Ballon d’Or.

Oshoala is a three-time winner of the African Ladies’s Championship, claiming the titles in 2014, 2016, and 2018 and profitable the competitors’s golden boot award in two of these editions.