Oshoala, three other Super Falcons players nominated for CAF Player of the Year

The Barcelona Femeni ahead has received the award 4 occasions and could also be on her solution to the fifth as she has been nominated

Asisat Oshoala, Rasheedat Ajibade, Chiamaka Nnadozie and Uchenna Kanu have been nominated for the CAF Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months awards.

All 4 gamers have been named as a part of a 30-player record of nominees together with 6 South Africans, 3 Moroccans, 3 Ghanaians, 4 Cameroonians, 2 Zambians, 2 Zimbabweans, 2 Tunisians, 2 Botswanan, 1 Burundian, and 1 Togolese participant.

The Nigerians are all at present on the Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) the place the Tremendous Falcons misplaced to South Africa 2-1.

Oshoala, who will intention to win her fifth award has been dominated out of the WAFCON, in what’s an enormous risk to her possibilities of profitable her fifth Participant of the 12 months award.

The ahead suffered an harm to her medial ligament within the sport, and has now ensured she’d miss the match.

Oshoala has been flown again to her membership, Barcelona the place she’s going to bear additional checks.

The CAF Awards will maintain on the twenty first of July.