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Asisat Oshoala: Nigerian is hungry for more Barcelona success

By Oluwashina Okeleji
Football Writer, Nigeria

32 minutes ago. African Football.

Nigeria's Asisat Oshoala is hungry for more success with Barcelona Femenino after winning her first major trophy in Spanish football.

The 25-year-old scored a brace on Sunday as Barcelona thrashed Real Sociedad 10-1 to clinch the maiden Spanish Women's Super Cup in Salamanca.

"To add the Super Cup to last year's Copa Catalunya was a great experience," Oshoala told BBC Sport.

"But my professional priority is to keep doing well and winning, so I can't take my eyes off the targets.

"We still have the league, Uefa Women's Champions League and the Spanish Cup to contest this season as a team."

Unbeaten Barcelona currently sit atop the Primera División as they seek their first league title in five years and they face Spanish rivals Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals of the Uefa Women's Champions League next month.

Oshoala who netted a late consolation for the Catalan club in their 4-1 loss to French side Lyon Feminines in last year's continental final is keeping her feet firmly on the ground.

"Individual ambition is same as a collective one for the team this season," she added.

"We do not have the satisfaction yet because we're challenging for success in all competitions, so we need to keep going."

Oshoala won the Confederation of African Football's (Caf) Women's Player of the Year award last month - for a fourth time equalling the record of fellow Nigerian Perpetua Nkwocha.

The maiden BBC Women's Footballer of the Year winner scored at the 2019 Women's World Cup to help Nigeria reach the last 16 in France.

She joined the Spanish outfit initially on loan from Chinese champions Dalian Quanjian in January 2019 before signing a permanent deal five months later.

Oshoala moved to Quanjian in the Far East in February 2017 from English side Arsenal Ladies with whom she won the Women's FA Cup at Wembley in May 2016 .

She finished as the Chinese Women's Super League top scorer in 2017 with 12 goals to help her club to the title same year.

Oshoala, who began her European career at Liverpool Ladies, won her third Women's Africa Cup of Nations with the Super Falcons in Ghana in 2018, scoring three goals as Nigeria lifted the title for a ninth time.

Asisat Oshoala: Nigerian is hungry for more Barcelona success

By Oluwashina Okeleji
Football Writer, Nigeria

32 minutes ago. African Football.

Nigeria's Asisat Oshoala is hungry for more success with Barcelona Femenino after winning her first major trophy in Spanish football.

The 25-year-old scored a brace on Sunday as Barcelona thrashed Real Sociedad 10-1 to clinch the maiden Spanish Women's Super Cup in Salamanca.

"To add the Super Cup to last year's Copa Catalunya was a great experience," Oshoala told BBC Sport.

"But my professional priority is to keep doing well and winning, so I can't take my eyes off the targets.

"We still have the league, Uefa Women's Champions League and the Spanish Cup to contest this season as a team."

Unbeaten Barcelona currently sit atop the Primera División as they seek their first league title in five years and they face Spanish rivals Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals of the Uefa Women's Champions League next month.

Oshoala who netted a late consolation for the Catalan club in their 4-1 loss to French side Lyon Feminines in last year's continental final is keeping her feet firmly on the ground.

"Individual ambition is same as a collective one for the team this season," she added.

"We do not have the satisfaction yet because we're challenging for success in all competitions, so we need to keep going."

Oshoala won the Confederation of African Football's (Caf) Women's Player of the Year award last month - for a fourth time equalling the record of fellow Nigerian Perpetua Nkwocha.

The maiden BBC Women's Footballer of the Year winner scored at the 2019 Women's World Cup to help Nigeria reach the last 16 in France.

She joined the Spanish outfit initially on loan from Chinese champions Dalian Quanjian in January 2019 before signing a permanent deal five months later.

Oshoala moved to Quanjian in the Far East in February 2017 from English side Arsenal Ladies with whom she won the Women's FA Cup at Wembley in May 2016 .

She finished as the Chinese Women's Super League top scorer in 2017 with 12 goals to help her club to the title same year.

Oshoala, who began her European career at Liverpool Ladies, won her third Women's Africa Cup of Nations with the Super Falcons in Ghana in 2018, scoring three goals as Nigeria lifted the title for a ninth time.

Freehuman:
Our female basketballers probably don't even know what NIGERIA looks like. They are abroad baby girls.

For them to lose to USA with that margin means they stand a big big chance.

Freehuman:
Our female basketballers probably don't even know what NIGERIA looks like. They are abroad baby girls.

For them to lose to USA with that margin means they stand a big big chance.

naptu2:
Jenni and Mariona are injured (remember that Caroline is also out). That means it's time for Oshoala, Lieke, Claudia Pina and Candela to step up. I wish they'd play Lieke in her proper position.



Meanwhile, the media's been buzzing since yesterday. Ada Hergerberg tore her ACL earlier this week and there have been amazing rumours that Lyon is trying to sign Oshoala to replace her. That's

naptu2:
Let's tie my two previous posts together with one video.


This is a highlight video of the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final between Barcelona and Olympique Lyon.


The silly Barca coach did not start Asisat Oshoala.

The 2016 European player of the year, 2017 and 2019 BBC player of the year and 2018 Ballon d'Or winner, Ada Hergerberg scored a hat-trick for Lyon.

It was announced (3 days ago) that Ada Hergerberg has torn her ACL and she will be out for the rest of the season. Many newspapers have reported that Lyon's sporting director is in Barcelona to make an audacious bid for Asisat Oshoala.


Asisat Oshoala is the 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019 African player of the year and also the 2015 BBC player of the year. She came on in the second half.


Lieke Martens (aka female Messi) is the 2017 FIFA world player of the year and also the 2017 European player of the year. She played a delightful pass to Oshoala and Oshoala left French legend Wendie Renaud for dead and scored Barcelona's only goal of the game.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QpKQLx0G1s

Real Sociedad 1-10 Barça Women: Super Cup Champions!


Barça Women won their second title of the season and the first Super Cup in its history after beating Real Sociedad

www.fcbarcelona.com
02:07PM SUNDAY 09 FEB

Barça Women have won the first Spanish Super Cup in their history after an incredible 1-10 victory over Real Sociedad. The reigning champions, were put to the sword throughout, and found themselves down 0-6 by half-time. Torrejón - with a poker (four goals) was the final MVP, Alexia and Oshoala scored a brace each, with Graham and Candela adding to the tally.

The blaugranes controlled the game from the beginning. A superb one-two between Alexia and Patri saw the former play in Marta Torrejón to open the scoring with a sensational first goal. Just two minutes later Alexia added the second herself. With half an hour played, the score remained the same, but then another incisive move, this time from Mariona and Graham, allowed Torrejón to add the third.


Floodgates opened

That opened the floodgates, with Oshoala and Graham adding two more within four minutes. Barça Women still weren't done, and Alexia added their sixth on the stroke of half-time. Five minutes after the restart, Oshoala made it seven, and when Graham's shot was spilled by the Basque goalkeeper, Torrejón was on target for the eighth.

Just after the hour mark, Sociedad's Manu gave her team something to cheer, but their joy was short-lived as Candela scored her first of the season to make it 1-9. Just three minutes later, a great cross by Lieke Martens found Torrejón to complete the rout.

MATCH DETAILS

Reial Sociedad, 1
Barça, 10

Reial Sociedad: Quiñones, Iraia, Tejada, Etxezarreta, Nahikari (Manu, min 60), Itxaso (Maddi, min 45), Cardona, Leire Baños (Olaizola, min 64), Bárbara Latorre (Eizagirre, min 23), Lucía, Nuria Mendoza.

Barça Women: Paños, María León, Marta Torrejón, Mariona (Aitana, min 57), Alexia, Patri (Losada, min 57), Leila (Crnogorčević, min 27), Graham (Candela, min 57), A. Pereira, Oshoala, Martens.

Goals: 0-1, Marta Torrejón (min 5); 0-2, Alexia (min 7); 0-3, Marta Torrejón (min 33); 0-4, Oshoala (min 35); 0-5, Graham (min 37); 0-6, Alexia (min 44); 0-7, Oshoala (min 51); 0-8, Torrejón (min 56); 1-8, Manu (min 63); 1-9, Candela (min 75); 1-10, Marta Torrejón (min 78).

Official: Marta Huerta. Yellow card for Lucía.

Attendance: 9,217 spectators at l’Helmántico de Salamanca.

naptu2:
My God! Look at that Barcelona forward line!


You have a former world player of the year on the left and one of the deadliest wingers and the best assist provider on the right and then you have the two highest goal scorers in the league in the middle.

I wish Kheira was fit.

GEEBITE:
What happened to her sister Chiney,she is a great basketball player too.That is one great sporting family that are all brainy,the two sisters attended Stanford.I am really happy for their dad who is the pillar of their success,a great man.