FIFA has honoured Nigerian soccer sensation Asisat Oshoala for her excellent show on the 2014 U-20 Girls’s World Cup, a event the place she actually introduced herself on the worldwide stage, Soccernet.ng studies.
The world soccer governing physique took to its official X account to have a good time Oshoala, sharing a video compilation of her event highlights, and captioning it, “Agba Baller, from the very begin.”
Agba Baller, from the very begin. 💫 #U20WWC pic.twitter.com/Q5lRbhBZHG
— FIFA Girls’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) August 17, 2024
Oshoala’s efficiency through the 2014 U-20 Girls’s World Cup was nothing in need of extraordinary.
The younger ahead was pivotal in Nigeria’s spectacular run to the ultimate, scoring seven targets that earned her each the Golden Boot because the event’s high scorer and the Golden Ball as the perfect participant.
Her exceptional expertise and drive not solely secured her private accolades but additionally helped Nigeria end as runners-up.
Oshoala’s success didn’t cease on the youth stage. Her distinctive performances led to her choice for the Tremendous Falcons, the place she performed a vital position in profitable the 2014 African Girls’s Championship.
That very same yr, she was topped the African Girls’s Footballer of the Yr for the primary time, a title she has since claimed a file six occasions.
Oshoala has additionally made historical past on the European stage, changing into the primary African participant to win the UEFA Girls’s Champions League, a feat she has achieved 3 times with Barcelona (2021, 2023, and 2024).
Moreover, she was the primary African girl to attain in a UEFA Girls’s Champions League ultimate and win the Primera División’s Pichichi Trophy. In August 2022, she grew to become the primary African girl nominated for the Ballon d’Or Féminin.
Oshoala’s illustrious profession has seen her shine for high golf equipment throughout the globe, together with Arsenal, Liverpool, and Barcelona.
A brand new star may but be born as Nigeria head to Colombia for the eleventh version of the FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup which is scheduled to happen between thirty first August and twenty second September.
The Falconets are one among solely 4 African international locations that will likely be on the event alongside Ghana, Morocco, and Cameroon.
Nigeria’s U20 staff will battle for honours in Group D along with Germany, South Korea, and Venezuela.
