Courtney Dike scored the fastest goal of the competition, Asisat Oshoala scored 4 goals and Uchechi Sunday scored 1 goal.
Korea DPR 2-6 Nigeria.
naptu2: Goals by Courtney Dike (1), Uchechi Sunday (1) and Asisat Oshoala (4) gave Nigeria a 2-6 victory over North Korea in the semi-final of the 2014 FIFA Under 20 Women's World Cup.
naptu2: Oshoala scores a brace against her former club as Barca defeats Arsenal 2-5.
Barcelona defeated English champions Arsenal 2-5 in a pre-season friendly at Meadow Park in Hertfordshire, England yesterday night. Asisat Oshoala scored a brace, while new Barca striker Caroline Graham Hansen provided 3 assists.
Bad start.
Barca dominated possession from the start against a very tight Arsenal defence. The cules had goal scoring opportunities for Oshoala and Alexia, but they were not able to convert their chances. In fact it was the home team that drew first blood via a powerful shot by McCabe in the 36th minute (1-0).
The reaction from Barcelona was instant, and in just one minute, the Lluís Cortés trained girls scored two goals to overturn the scoreline and go to the break with the lead. First Patri Guijarro scored (1-1, minute 44), and later Oshoala scored (1-2, minute 45) after a great assist by Graham Hansen.
Barca kept up the pressure right from the resumption of the game and Oshoala scored again 5 minutes into the second half (1-3, minute 50). Alexia had played a powerful shot at goal which was knocked out by Arsenal's goalkeeper Zinsberger, but Oshoala fired the rebound into the goal.
Barça's coach rang the changes and one of the substitutes, Claudia Pina, scored the fourth goal off another great assist by Graham (1-4 minutes 70).
Little scored from the penalty spot for Arsenal(2-4, minute 76), but even so, Barça followed with a counter attack and again Claudia Pina - with another assist from Graham - took advantage of Barca's passing game to score the final goal (2-5, minute 81).
Details.
Arsenal 2 - 5 Barça
Arsenal: Zinsberger, Veje (Quinn, min. 66), Beattie (Mitchell, min. 66), Williamson, Van de Donk (Schnadebeck, min. 66), Little, Miedema, Roord, McCabe, Maier, Mead
Barça: Paños (Gemma Font, min. 61), Maria León (Melanie, min. 72), Marta Torrejón (Jana Fernández, min. 84), Mariona, Hamraoui (Aitana, min. 46), Alexia (Vicky Losada, min. 60), Patri (Paula G., min. 87), Graham (Arola A., min. 87), A. Pereira (Laia Codina, min. 72), Oshoala (C. Pina, min. 62), Falcón (Leila, min. 60).
Arsenal are statistically the most successful club in English women's football, holding the records for most titles won in each domestic competition they have played in. The club have won 15 League titles, 14 FA Women's Cup, 5 FA WSL Cups, 10 Women's Premier League Cups, 5 FA Women's Community Shield, and are the only English club to win the UEFA Women's Champions League. In the 2006–07 season, the club became the first in the history of women's football to achieve the continental European sextuple.
naptu2: Asisat Oshoala scored the first goal for Barcelona in a record breaking game against Atletico Madrid this afternoon at the Wanda Metropolitano.
The match set a new attendance record for women's football in Europe with over 60,739 spectators in the stadium.
The game is also significant because Barcelona were 6 points behind Atletico at the top of the table and Atletico would have virtually won the league if they had won this game.
They didn't because Oshoala scored from a stunning header in the 65th minute (she went off a few minutes later with a muscle problem after leading another attack) and Toni Duggan came off the bench (replacing Oshoala) to score the second and winning goal in the 80th minute.
naptu2: There is no other African player at the moment that is spoken of in the same terms as Vivianne Miedema, Pernille Harder, Ada Hegerberg, Lieke Martens, Jenni Hermoso and Caroline Graham Hansen. The only African is Asisat Oshoala.
naptu2: The Super Falcons were at their camp ahead of the 2015 World Cup when the BBC arrived and surprised Asisat Oshoala with her 2015 BBC World Women's Footballer of the Year award.
naptu2: Watch this match between Mil Mascaras and Cactus Jack (Mick Foley/Mankind). What I want you to observe is the sheer number of holds and moves that Mascaras used.
Mil Mascaras popularised the Lucha Libre (Mexican Freestyle) form of wrestling around the world. Like most luchadores he wore a mask and used many attractive wrestling holds and high flying manoeuvres. He was the man of a thousand masks.
Mascaras was at the height of his popularity in the 1970s and early 1980s (he celebrated his 50th anniversary in the ring in 2002).
Jushin Thunder Liger is like a cross between Mil Mascaras and The Great Kabuki. He wore a mask like Mascaras and he did a lot of high flying manoeuvres. However, his mask looks more like the face paint and masks that his fellow Japanese national, Kabuki, wore in the 1980s than Mil Mascaras' masks. Liger also sometimes blows Asian mist into his opponents' eyes just as Kabuki did. Liger became famous in the late 1980s and he was popular around the world into the early 2000s. He retired from wrestling last year.
Rey Mysterio Junior is like a modern day Mil Mascaras.
So what happened when Jushin Thunder Liger fought Rey Mysterio in 1996? Well here's the match.
naptu2: The tribute to Mil Mascaras during his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Rey Mysterio Jr and Mascaras' nephew, Alberto Del Rio talk about how he inspired them. Of course there were clips of his 1970s and '80s matches. Although they didn't mention what happened, there's also a clip of his first Royal Rumble contest in which he eliminated himself by diving off the top rope and on to someone on the ground.
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