The crest for the CAF Women’s Player of the Year has again fallen on the enviably decorated head of Super Falcon striker, Asisat Oshoala.
She was was announced the winner of the gong in the gala held in Rabat, Morrocco, on Thursday, thus becoming the first player in history to win five African Player of the Year awards.
Bor January 29, 1994, Oshoala had also won the best African female football in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019:
She plays as a striker for Primera División club FC Barcelona Femení and the Nigerian women’s national team and is widely regarded as one of the greatest African female footballers of all time and one of the best in the world.
The striker, whose parents ironically opposed her plan to play soccer, is the most decorated African female footballer of all time, and a record five time African Women’s Footballer of the Year.
Asisat previously played for English clubs Arsenal and Liverpool, Chinese club Dailan, and Nigerian clubs Rivers Angels and FC Robo.
She won the 2015 FA Women’s Cup with Arsenal; two league championships and a cup title with Dalian; and the 2019–20 Copa de la Reina and 2019–20 Supercopa de España Femenina with Barcelona. She was the first African (and Nigerian) player to score a goal in a UEFA Women’s Champions League final and has helped Barcelona reach the semi-finals three consecutive years, and one final. On 16 May 2021, Asisat became the first African woman to win the UEFA Champions League, after Barcelona defeated Chelsea 4–0 in the finals.
Asisat was the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and was named best player at the tournament. She was also named best player and second top goalscorer with the Super Falcons team who won the 2014 African Women’s Championship.
In September 2014, Oshoala was made a Member of the Order of the Niger by President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan. In 2021, she was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30.
