Barcelona's Oshoala makes Spanish Primera Iberdrola Team of the Season
Samuel Ahmadu Africa Women's Football Correspondent 20:49. 07/06/2020
The top-flight organisers have named the best performing players in the last campaign, and included the Nigeria international Barcelona forward Asisat Oshoala has been named in the Spanish Primera Iberdrola Team of the Season for the 2019-20 campaign.
Oshoala has emerged as one of the superstars in the top-flight, putting her strength, power, and physicality on display while scoring goals aplenty for Barcelona, since moving to Spain on January 31, 2019.
The Nigeria international played a huge role in helping the Catalans clinch their first league title in five years without losing a match in 21 games last season.
The FC Robo Queens product scored 20 goals and gave one assist in 19 outings to help Lluis Cortes' side finish at the top before the league was called off due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
The 3-3-4 formation list, dominated by Barcelona, saw Sandra Panos claim the goal post, while Mapi Leon and Marian Torrejon, along with Deportivo La Corona's Maria Mendez named in the defence.
In the midfield are Ona Batlle of Levante and Barcelona duo of Patri Guijarro and Alexia Putellas, while Oshoala led the attack with Jenni Hermoso, Graham Hansen and Atletico Madrid's Lucy Santos.
The Super Falcons star is the only African among the nominations, with the likes of Logrono striker Jade Boho, who managed 12 goals last term, overlooked.
So far, the reigning African Women's Player of the Year has scored 36 goals for Barcelona in 18 months, becoming one of the top 10 all-time scorers of the Spanish giants.
On her initial loan spell, she scored eight goals in 11 games, including their only goal in the Champions League final, and made history as the first African to register a goal at that stage of the European competition.
At Barcelona, the 25-year-old celebrated her first silverware with the Copa Catalunya last August, before clinching the Super Women's Cup in February and recently the Spanish top-flight title.
Coronavirus: New Zealand wipes out COVID-19 after last person infected recovers
Following New Zealand's progress, ministers have agreed another phase of the country's reopening from midnight.
Lucia Binding. News reporter @luciabinding Monday 8 June 2020 07:26, UK
New Zealand has successfully wiped out coronavirus after the final person known to have been infected recovered.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she was confident the country had halted the spread of COVID-19, but said it would "almost certainly" see more cases in the future.
"We are confident we have eliminated transmission of the virus in New Zealand for now, but elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort," she told a news conference.
"I do want to say again, we will almost certainly see cases here again, and that is not a sign that we have failed, it is a reality of this virus. But if and when that occurs we have to make sure, and we are, that we are prepared."
It has been 17 days since the last new case was reported, with 40,000 tested in that time.
Monday also marked the first time since late February that there have been no active cases.
Following the country's progress, ministers have approved another phase of reopening from midnight, Ms Ardern said.
She said the government's focus would be on the country's borders, where isolation and quarantine will continue.
New Zealand's director-general of health, Ashley Bloomfield, said having no new cases was a "significant mark in our journey", but added that "ongoing vigilance against COVID-19 will continue to be essential".
A number of factors have helped the nation of five million eradicate the disease swiftly, according to experts.
Its isolated location in the South Pacific provided it time to observe how outbreaks spread in other countries, and Ms Arden acted decisively by imposing a strict lockdown early in the outbreak.
Around 1,500 people contracted coronavirus in New Zealand, with just 22 deaths.
Meanwhile, China has reported four new cases, all of them brought from outside the country. The country officially announced a total of 4,634 deaths out of 83,040 total cases since the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan late last year.
South Korea reported 38 new cases, more of them in the Seoul region, as schools fully reopened on Monday. Health minister Park Neunghoo called for officials to examine supplies of testing equipment in case infections continue.
Yehmmisi: pls can anybody help with the video of the episode where a marriage was arranged for Boniface. and the episode where a possessed girl dealt with the headmaster and others. please i will like to show my kids. i was that little girl
I remember that episode with the arranged marriage for Boniface!
I don't have the videos, but I'll search for them.
richiemcgold: I'm somehow disappointed that nobody has mentioned some great oldies like Alex O's banana, Baby walakolombo. And there was a popular rapper in late 80 known as Daniel Wilson (original bad boy aka mr ragamuffin). all these guys and their songs were very popular back then.
Those are not rap songs. Alex O was a pop singer. I've posted his videos on many threads, but he is not a rapper. This thread is about rap music. Daniel Wilson was a ragga toaster and singer. He was not a rapper.
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