Arguably three names will come to mind

And fortunately they are all Nigerians

Perpetual Nkwocha


Mercy Akide


And now


Asisat Oshoala

robosky02:
Arguably three names will come to mind

And fortunately they are all Nigerians

Perpetual Nkwocha


Mercy Akide


And now


Asisat Oshoala

Desire Oparanozi

donproject:


Desire Oparanozi

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Nkwocha was already playing football on the streets of Lagos as a kid, rubbing shoulders with boys of her peer group. It was a game meant for boys, but Nkwocha never saw herself as a girl. She was what I may call ‘Tom boy’ and she loved the game of football with a passion. Being shuffled and tackled hard by the boys, she began to develop great football skills and game intelligence. Several years after, Nkwocha has turned out to be Africa’s greatest woman footballer of all time.

At the peak of her career in 2004, Nkwocha became the only African woman to be ever listed in FIFA – XI – bringing the continent’s women football to reckoning for the first time. In that same year, she set a record, scoring 9 goals in African Women Football Championship. She won both the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the Highest Goal Scorer (HGS) award at the championship.

No one who saw that game will ever forget how Nkwocha stunned everyone, scoring 4 goals against Cameroon. It was such an extra-ordinary performance that even caught the interest of the Swedish team – Damailsvenskn club Sunnana SK. Then, she became the first African woman footballer to sign a real professional contract worth over $500, 000.

robosky02:


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Nkwocha was already playing football on the streets of Lagos as a kid, rubbing shoulders with boys of her peer group. It was a game meant for boys, but Nkwocha never saw herself as a girl. She was what I may call ‘Tom boy’ and she loved the game of football with a passion. Being shuffled and tackled hard by the boys, she began to develop great football skills and game intelligence. Several years after, Nkwocha has turned out to be Africa’s greatest woman footballer of all time.

At the peak of her career in 2004, Nkwocha became the only African woman to be ever listed in FIFA – XI – bringing the continent’s women football to reckoning for the first time. In that same year, she set a record, scoring 9 goals in African Women Football Championship. She won both the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the Highest Goal Scorer (HGS) award at the championship.

No one who saw that game will ever forget how Nkwocha stunned everyone, scoring 4 goals against Cameroon. It was such an extra-ordinary performance that even caught the interest of the Swedish team – Damailsvenskn club Sunnana SK. Then, she became the first African woman footballer to sign a real professional contract worth over $500, 000.

I know she the best, I was just playing around