Oshoala, 3 Other Nigerians Nominated For CAF Women’s Award

Oyinlola Awonuga
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Asisat Oshoala, Rasheedat Ajibade, Chiamaka Nnadozie and Uchenna Kanu are the Super Falcons stars named by CAF in a nominee list of 30, for the 2022 CAF Women’s Player of the Year award.

The annual award seeks to reward Africa’s best female football player will see the four Nigerian slug it out with 26 other female players from the continent.

Oshoala currently holds the title of the best woman footballer on the continent, after having won the award for the fourth time in 2019 – a joint record she holds with Super Falcons legend, Perpetua Nkwocha.

Other notable names on the 30-woman list include 2018 winner Thembi Chrestinah Kgatlana, Gabrielle Onguene who finished second behind Oshoala in 2016, and 2017, high-flying Inter Milan striker Ajara Nchout Njoya, and South Africa’s midfielder maestros Refiloe Jane and Linda Mothalo.

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