In one of my previous threads, one of the "exposed people" said that Asisat Oshoala cannot chip the keeper like Messi does, that's why she always goes round the keeper. Obviously this is not true and she actually did chip the keeper yesterday (unfortunately the camera work is poor because of the size of the stadium).
This "stadium" looks small because CD Tacon plays at Real Madrid's training ground. Madrid has actually taken over Tacon (the take over was approved at their general meeting late last year), but Tacon cannot change their name and logo in the middle of the season (that's the reason that I wrote "in the process of taking over" in my first post). Tacon will register with a new name and logo at the beginning of next season.
There was a conversation on Sports Zone on Lagos Talks FM and that conversation correctly described a problem that I've had with a lot of people when it comes to Asisat Oshoala. There's a reason why a lot of people do not want to recognise her achievements.
Two of the presenters described it as an "exposure problem". That is, there are many Nigerians that do not want to acknowledge when a Nigerian is doing well because they want to feel that they are more "exposed" than the average Nigerian. That's one of the reasons that I like the fact that Oshoala always delivers.
Today some Nigerians are ranking Tabitha Chawinga ahead of Oshoala solely based on her performance in the Chinese League (Malawi does not qualify for anything at all, so it's certainly not because of national team performance). Funny enough, those same Nigerians said that Oshoala's exploits in the Chinese League (she was the highest goal scorer there) was unimportant because it's just the Chinese League. In fact, one of Oshoala's rivals in the Super Falcons actually said (in one of their quarrels) that Oshoala failed in Europe and that's why she ran to the Chinese League. Yet, see her performing at the highest levels in Europe.
Anytime anyone talks about Oshoala's important contributions to Barca, some of these exposed Nigerians would rush to condemn the person and quickly point out that other Barca players are more important, yet Oshoala was neck and neck with Jenni in the Pichichi race and would have scored even more if the coach didn't sub her often. She proved yesterday that she can easily score more than a brace if she's left on the pitch.
The cool thing is that the more people try to put her down, the more she proves herself on the pitch and she knows when to grab her opportunities. In 2013 I predicted that two Nigerian players would do great things in the future. Unfortunately the other Nigerian, Kelechi Iheanacho, did not know how to grab his chances (I knew that he would lose out at Man City the day that Guardiola played him ahead of Aguero and he missed two great chances. That was his opportunity to hit the big time and I knew that Guardiola would eventually bench him). However, Oshoala knows exactly when she's required to performance magic and she delivers. That's all that matters. Not the critics, but the fact that she delivers.
I'm a huge fan of Tabitha Chawinga and there have been many years that I've stated that she should have won the African Footballer of the Year title (check my diary, you'll see many of those posts along with pictures of her), but not this year. She obviously did not participate in the World Cup (neither did she play in the previous Awcon) and she was now playing in China.
To me, this year's African Women's footballer of the year title was between Oshoala and Njoya. It was very close but Oshoala just shaded it. That's the way that I expected it to go and that's the way it actually went. Although I don't understand why Nigerian delegates voted for Chawinga (particularly when you think of the criticisms that Oshoala faced from Nigerians when she was the highest goal scorer in China), but I accept that they have the right to vote for whoever they want.
When you add together Oshoala's scoring record in the league and Queen's Cup, plus her goal in the World Cup and her goals at the Cyprus Cup and qualifiers, I think it was the correct result.
One thing that makes me very happy about Oshoala is that she always delivers when it's necessary, no matter the difficulties and the records (not opinions) speak for themselves. She was the second highest goal scorer in 2014, highest goal scorer in 2016 and joint second highest goal scorer in 2018. She is one of only two women to score in two World Cups. She was the only Nigerian to score at the last World Cup and she won a woman of the match award.
maynation: I don't even know the demonym of my state sef. My dear ondo state? Is it necessary??
Ondo and Edo are meant to share something in common (although it's a bit controversial). The demonym is meant to be exactly the same as the name of the state. This is because there was an ancient kingdom called Ondo and the people of that kingdom are known as Ondo. (The problem is that I don't think that all the people that are from Ondo State are from that kingdom). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondo_Kingdom
Similarly, people from Edo State are known as Edo, because there is an ethnicity known as Edo (the controversy is that I'm not sure that all the people from Edo State are from that ethnicity).
KosiGee: Once you are obsessed with someone, the person can never do wrong. I have followed her since her days with the likes of Glory Iroka both for club and country...I thought Iroka was going to be the best Nigerian female midfielder...reminds of Iniesta with her passes...
Look for Falcon’s matches between 2017-2019, watch them and pay attention to Oshoala....she might be a super Zee for clubs but she’s a horror to watch playing for Nigeria within the last two years.
Watch her against South Africa, Ghana, Cameroon and even against Equatorial Guinea.
She’s not the only but the entire team. If I was to vote based on individual performance with the national team, Oshoala would be lucky to get a vote. Yes she was that horrible except you are not being honest.
Go back and watch the matches if you have time not some clips that make her look good.
Nigeria met South Africa in the semi-final of the 2016 AWCON in Cameroon on November 29th and their paths since then could not have been more different. While Banyana Banyana has been very active and has improved considerably, the Super Falcons have been in the wilderness and have declined.
Sponsorship Change began for South Africa in 2009 when energy giant Sasol signed on to sponsor Banyana Banyana and the South African Women’s Football League. Since then the company has pumped a lot of money into the development of women’s football in South Africa.
[img]http://naijachronicles.files./2018/11/banyana-13.jpg?w=584[/img] Banyana Banyana and the South African Women’s League are sponsored by South African energy giant, Sasol. The South Africans had two main goals, (1) to qualify for the World Cup and (2) to beat Nigeria.
The four dominant teams in African women’s football are Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and South Africa and the South Africans are the one of the four that has never qualified for the World Cup until now. Sponsorship from Sasol meant that the South African FA (SAFA) could hire a Dutch coach, Vera Pauw, in 2014 and she led Banyana Banyana to the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Vera Pauw retired after the Olympics and SAFA hired former Banyana Banyana player, Desiree Ellis in 2016.
South Africa also played AWCON qualifying matches against Lesotho in June 2018. They won 0-1 away at Lesotho and 6-0 at home to qualify for the AWCON.
South Africa hosted the COSAFA Women’s Championship in September 2018. The tournament featured Southern African teams, with Uganda and Cameroon taking part as guests. Banyana Banyana defeated Madagascar, Botswana and Malawi in the group stage and defeated Uganda in the semi-final. They defeated Cameroon 2-1 in the final to lift the cup.
Banyana Banyana captain, Janine Van Wyk, sacrificed her career with the Houston Dash to return to South Africa and play in the COSAFA Championship. She had played for Banyana for a long time and her last remaining goal was to help the team to qualify for the World Cup. She was prepared to do everything to ensure that Banyana Banyana qualified for the World Cup. She won her 150th cap with Banyana Banyana at the COSAFA Championship. She is now the most capped South African player ever (man or woman).
Banyana Banyana played two matches against Chile in Chile in October. The lost 2-1 in the first game on October 6th and drew 2-2 in the second game on October 10th.
There are two advantages that Nigeria has always had over other African countries; (1) Nigeria has had a women’s league since 1990 and the league has been running continuously since then, which means that the players have been active (2) Nigerian female players have played in clubs all over the world (Europe, China, the US, Australia, etc.) and have thus gained a lot of experience. The South Africans were determined to narrow this gap.
Sasol’s sponsorship of the league has ensured that South African women’s football clubs have had more money to invest in youth development, better training facilities and it has also ensured that the league has been running continuously.
South Africa’s very experienced captain, Janine Van Wyk, moved to Houston Dash in the US National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in 2017 and South Africa’s former coach, Vera Pauw, became coach of the club soon afterwards. It was therefore no surprise that fellow South Africans, Thembi Kgatlana and Linda Mothlalo were signed by Houston in 2018.
These three players, Thembi Kgatlana, Janine Van Wyk and Linda Mothlalo have played a huge role in South Africa’s success at this Nations Cup and I believe that their performance has improved partly because of the experience they’ve gained by playing in the NWSL, which is one of the best leagues in the world.
Janine Van Wyk sacrificed her career at Houston to return home to help Bnayana Banyana prepare properly for the Nations Cup. She believed that this was her last chance to play at the World Cup and she was determined to do everything possible to ensure that South Africa qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever.
South Africa has achieved their two objectives at this Nations Cup. They have qualified for the World Cup and they have beaten Nigeria.
KosiGee: Once you are obsessed with someone, the person can never do wrong. I have followed her since her days with the likes of Glory Iroka both for club and country...I thought Iroka was going to be the best Nigerian female midfielder...reminds of Iniesta with her passes...
Look for Falcon’s matches between 2017-2019, watch them and pay attention to Oshoala....she might be a super Zee for clubs but she’s a horror to watch playing for Nigeria within the last two years.
Watch her against South Africa, Ghana, Cameroon and even against Equatorial Guinea.
She’s not the only but the entire team. If I was to vote based on individual performance with the national team, Oshoala would be lucky to get a vote. Yes she was that horrible except you are not being honest.
Go back and watch the matches if you have time not some clips that make her look good.
It is a miracle that the Super Falcons of Nigeria have qualified for the 2018 AWCON final because they’ve suffered a torrid time since winning the 2016 AWCON in Cameroon.
The Super Falcons’ woes began even before they played the final match at the 2016 AWCON. They had heard that the sports minister, Solomon Dalung and members of the NFF led by their president, Amaju Pinnick, would come and address the team, especially on issues concerning their camp allowances, winning bonuses and the coaches’ nine months salaries would be settled.
However, the sports minister, NFF president and their delegation flew into Yaounde in a chartered jet, stayed at the airport until it was almost time for the match, drove straight to the stadium to watch the match without seeing the Falcons and then drove back to the airport after the match and flew to Nigeria without seeing the players.
The VIPs flew into Yaounde in a chartered jet, but the players had to fly back to Nigeria via commercial flights. They had to fly from Yaounde to Douala in a plane that was too small to carry their luggage (their luggage was transported by road) and then fly from Douala to Abuja.
Protest
Their allowances and bonuses were still not paid when they returned to Abuja and they had to stage a sit in protest at their hotel.
Meanwhile, the Lionesses of Cameroon that were beaten by the Falcons were being hosted by President Biya at a state reception in which they were showered gifts, given medals and praised as heros of Cameroon. [img]http://naijachronicles.files./2018/11/reception_lionnes_full_08_12_2016.jpg?w=584[/img] Gaelle Enganamouit and other lionesses being hosted to a reception by President Biya of Cameroon after coming second at the 2016 AWCON.
The Falcons protested at their hotel until they were evicted, then they carried their protest to the streets. They staged a protest march to the National Assembly and they also marched to the Aso Rock Villa where they were received by the chief of staff to the president. The COS promised that President Buhari would intervene in their situation.
It took an intervention by President Buhari before the Falcons and their coaches were paid their entitlements.
Florence Omagbemi
Some members of the NFF were angry that the Falcons staged a protest in Abuja. They believed that the Falcons embarrassed the NFF before the government and people of Nigeria and they held Coach Florence Omagbemi responsible for the protest.
They believed that Coach Omagbemi was responsible because she did not control her players and prevent them from protesting, so they decided that she must go. They decided that they would either appoint a foreigner as coach of the Falcons or they would recall the former coach, Edwin Okon, to take over as coach.
The NFF initially ignored Coach Omagbemi for months, then they directed her to apply for her job. They eventually frustrated her out of the job and the Falcons were without a coach for many months.
The Falcons complain
After spending 8 months without a coach, a warm up session or a friendly match, the Falcons took to social media to stage another protest. They complained that other African teams were playing friendly matches and progressing, while the Falcons had been dormant and regressing. The Falcons had won the AWCON in December 2016, but they had not been involved in any activity till October 2017 when they complained on social media. Some people felt that the Falcons were being punished for their protest while others felt that the NFF was focusing solely on the Super Eagles’ qualification for the World Cup in Russia to the detriment of the other national teams.
The NFF responds Eventually, in November 2017, the president of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick, declared that the NFF had not abandoned the Super Falcons. He also declared that a new foreign coach would be in Nigeria to sign a contract within a week.
New coach or no new coach? The next week the NFF announced that an American, Randy Waldrum, had been appointed as the new coach of the Super Falcons. However, Randy Waldrum became the coach of the University of Pittsburgh in December 2017. The NFF had announced that he was the Falcons coach without signing a contract with him!
Thomas Dennerby and friendlies The NFF eventually signed Thomas Dennerby as the new coach of the Falcons in January 2018, more than a year after the 2016 AWCON. They also announced that the Super Falcons would feature in the Alanya Women’s tournament in Turkey alongside Mexico, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia and France’s B team. The Falcons were scheduled to play a friendly match against France in April 2018.
The Falcons participated in the WAFU Cup tournament in February 2018, but it was basically a home based team and it was mainly made up of players from the Under 20 squad (e.g. Rasheedat Ajibade and Anam Imo). Nigeria lost to Ghana on penalties in the semi-final and defeated Mali in the third place match.
Nigeria played against France in a friendly match on April 6th, 2018. It was the first time that the full senior team was playing together since December 2016. Asisat Oshoala could not make it to the game due to visa problems, but Courtney Dike, Ini Umotong and Sophia Omotola Omidiji were in the team. The Falcons lost 8-0 to France.
In June the Falcons played two AWCON qualifying matches against the Gambia. Nigeria defeated Gambia 0-1 away and won 6-0 in Lagos to qualify for the AWCON.
The future The matches against France and the Gambia were the only proper matches that the Super Falcons (the full team) played in almost two years.
The Super Falcons have now qualified for the FIFA Women’s World Cup which will hold in France in June and July 2019. The question is, will the NFF abandon the Falcons in order to concentrate on the Super Eagles’ quest to win the 2019 Nations Cup? Will the NFF organise quality friendly matches for the Falcons, or will they wait till 3 weeks before the World Cup to organise “friendly matches” against local Under 17 boys’ teams? What are the NFF’s plans for the Falcons ahead of the World Cup? The South Africans have already arranged a friendly match against Sweden for January 2019, when will the Falcons play friendlies? Bafana Bafana’s quest to play at the AFCON has not affected Banyana Banyana’s programmes, will the Eagles’ campaign at the AFCON affect the Falcons?
Friendlies are very important because they help the players to understand each other better, they help the coach to ensure that the players understand the way he wants them to play, they help the NFF and the fans to assess the performance of the coach and they help everybody to assess the performance of the players. Will we play quality friendlies before the World Cup?
KosiGee: If Oshoala has been amazing as you said, Falcons wouldn’t have struggled against the likes of South Africa, Ghana and Cameroon during the World Cup and Olympics games qualifiers. She has been a shadow of herself playing for Nigeria and that’s putting it mildly.
The likes of Okobi Ngozi, Francesca Ordega and Oshoala have been abysmal and horrible playing for Nigeria in the last two years. These three has done well for Nigeria no doubt but truth be told, Oshoala especially has played very very badly. Most times, you’d see her running aimlessly or shooting like someone who hasn’t played the ball before, Ordega would finish a match, jump into social media to exchange bad languages with trolls and fans who criticised either her fashion or bad performance.
Playing for Barcelona women has lifted Oshoala game but I still maintain as a fan or hers and Falcons that she hasn’t really been playing well for Nigeria. I think it’s been a combination of hard luck and bad choices in the field. She gets selfish when she was supposed to pass to a better placed player or she fails to convert sn obvious chance.
She was great in the under 20, she scored for Nigeria in the last World Cup but over all, she hasn’t been great with the Falcon. The good thing is that many of her fans have poor memory.
Asisat Oshoala's goal against South Korea at the 2019 World Cup.
KosiGee: Oga Naptu, lots of respect to you on your contributions both on sports and music. You are an encyclopaedia no doubt but you’ve been very patronising of mediocrity.
I’ve been following football longer than you can ever imagine.
I’m the last 2-3 years, Oshoala and the rest of the girls have been horrible in the green and white shirts.
For a team that battled the all mighty USA women and lost with just 1 goal with a red card to Nnodin and also played well against Dennerby’s girls in 2015, you’d expect better performances and improvements on the current squad. Oshoala’s laurels were over 4 years now. We can’t be dwelling on past glories. Criticising her isn’t born out of hatred. Throwing up photos of her holding best player awards or golden boots of 2015 won’t hide her poor performances with the Falcons.
She is blessed with pace and energy but those haven’t been of benefit for Nigeria in recent times. She is good but need to improve her game.
Then you should be able to properly analyse what happened in recent times! It's totally unfair to say that someone who has given her all and has performed wonderfully for the Falcons up till the problems of 2017 does not perform for the Falcons. Do you know the problems that team has gone through since 2017, from the protests to rivalry amongst the players to the lack of support from the NFF? Yet she has been performing despite all those. She scored Nigeria's only goal at the World Cup, yet you say that she performed less than those who did not score any goal. That goal was one of the reasons that Nigeria got beyond the first round for the first time in almost 20 years! She also scored in the qualifiers and in the warm up games, yet you put people who did not put in as much effort ahead of her, despite the problems that she has had to face in that team??
Are you aware of the rivalry in the team??
We are not even talking about 4 years ago. You said that the other girls put up a better performance, yet Oshoala scored more goals than them at both the 2018 Nations Cup and 2019 World Cup (and she was not even the top 9), so what are we talking about?
KosiGee: Oga Naptu, lots of respect to you on your contributions both on sports and music. You are an encyclopaedia no doubt but you’ve been very patronising of mediocrity.
I’ve been following football longer than you can ever imagine.
I’m the last 2-3 years, Oshoala and the rest of the girls have been horrible in the green and white shirts.
For a team that battled the all mighty USA women and lost with just 1 goal with a red card to Nnodin and also played well against Dennerby’s girls in 2015, you’d expect better performances and improvements on the current squad. Oshoala’s laurels were over 4 years now. We can’t be dwelling on past glories. Criticising her isn’t born out of hatred. Throwing up photos of her holding best player awards or golden boots of 2015 won’t hide her poor performances with the Falcons.
She is blessed with pace and energy but those haven’t been of benefit for Nigeria in recent times. She is good but need to improve her game.
Then you should be able to properly analyse what happened in recent times! It's totally unfair to say that someone who has given her all and has performed wonderfully for the Falcons up till the problems of 2017 does not perform for the Falcons. Do you know the problems that team has gone through since 2017, from the protests to rivalry amongst the players to the lack of support from the NFF? Yet she has been performing despite all those. She scored Nigeria's only goal at the World Cup, yet you say that she performed less than those who did not score any goal. That goal was one of the reasons that Nigeria got beyond the first round for the first time in almost 20 years! She also scored in the qualifiers and in the warm up games, yet you put people who did not put in as much effort ahead of her, despite the problems that she has had to face in that team??
KosiGee: If Oshoala has been amazing as you said, Falcons wouldn’t have struggled against the likes of South Africa, Ghana and Cameroon during the World Cup and Olympics games qualifiers. She has been a shadow of herself playing for Nigeria and that’s putting it mildly.
The likes of Okobi Ngozi, Francesca Ordega and Oshoala have been abysmal and horrible playing for Nigeria in the last two years. These three has done well for Nigeria no doubt but truth be told, Oshoala especially has played very very badly. Most times, you’d see her running aimlessly or shooting like someone who hasn’t played the ball before, Ordega would finish a match, jump into social media to exchange bad languages with trolls and fans who criticised either her fashion or bad performance.
Playing for Barcelona women has lifted Oshoala game but I still maintain as a fan or hers and Falcons that she hasn’t really been playing well for Nigeria. I think it’s been a combination of hard luck and bad choices in the field. She gets selfish when she was supposed to pass to a better placed player or she fails to convert sn obvious chance.
She was great in the under 20, she scored for Nigeria in the last World Cup but over all, she hasn’t been great with the Falcon. The good thing is that many of her fans have poor memory.
Asisat Oshoala is one of only two African women to score in two World Cup competitions. Here's her goal against Sweden in 2015.
Goals by Asisat Oshoala, Francisca Ordega and Ngozi Okobi give Nigeria a 3-3 draw against Sweden.
KosiGee: If Oshoala has been amazing as you said, Falcons wouldn’t have struggled against the likes of South Africa, Ghana and Cameroon during the World Cup and Olympics games qualifiers. She has been a shadow of herself playing for Nigeria and that’s putting it mildly.
The likes of Okobi Ngozi, Francesca Ordega and Oshoala have been abysmal and horrible playing for Nigeria in the last two years. These three has done well for Nigeria no doubt but truth be told, Oshoala especially has played very very badly. Most times, you’d see her running aimlessly or shooting like someone who hasn’t played the ball before, Ordega would finish a match, jump into social media to exchange bad languages with trolls and fans who criticised either her fashion or bad performance.
Playing for Barcelona women has lifted Oshoala game but I still maintain as a fan or hers and Falcons that she hasn’t really been playing well for Nigeria. I think it’s been a combination of hard luck and bad choices in the field. She gets selfish when she was supposed to pass to a better placed player or she fails to convert sn obvious chance.
She was great in the under 20, she scored for Nigeria in the last World Cup but over all, she hasn’t been great with the Falcon. The good thing is that many of her fans have poor memory.
4 goals by Asisat Oshoala helped Nigeria to defeat Mali 6-0 at the 2016 African Women's Nations Cup.
KosiGee: If Oshoala has been amazing as you said, Falcons wouldn’t have struggled against the likes of South Africa, Ghana and Cameroon during the World Cup and Olympics games qualifiers. She has been a shadow of herself playing for Nigeria and that’s putting it mildly.
The likes of Okobi Ngozi, Francesca Ordega and Oshoala have been abysmal and horrible playing for Nigeria in the last two years. These three has done well for Nigeria no doubt but truth be told, Oshoala especially has played very very badly. Most times, you’d see her running aimlessly or shooting like someone who hasn’t played the ball before, Ordega would finish a match, jump into social media to exchange bad languages with trolls and fans who criticised either her fashion or bad performance.
Playing for Barcelona women has lifted Oshoala game but I still maintain as a fan or hers and Falcons that she hasn’t really been playing well for Nigeria. I think it’s been a combination of hard luck and bad choices in the field. She gets selfish when she was supposed to pass to a better placed player or she fails to convert sn obvious chance.
She was great in the under 20, she scored for Nigeria in the last World Cup but over all, she hasn’t been great with the Falcon. The good thing is that many of her fans have poor memory.
Check out this beautiful goal (Oshoala's second) at the 2014 African Women's Nations Cup Semi Final. Check at the 57 second mark
KosiGee: If Oshoala has been amazing as you said, Falcons wouldn’t have struggled against the likes of South Africa, Ghana and Cameroon during the World Cup and Olympics games qualifiers. She has been a shadow of herself playing for Nigeria and that’s putting it mildly.
The likes of Okobi Ngozi, Francesca Ordega and Oshoala have been abysmal and horrible playing for Nigeria in the last two years. These three has done well for Nigeria no doubt but truth be told, Oshoala especially has played very very badly. Most times, you’d see her running aimlessly or shooting like someone who hasn’t played the ball before, Ordega would finish a match, jump into social media to exchange bad languages with trolls and fans who criticised either her fashion or bad performance.
Playing for Barcelona women has lifted Oshoala game but I still maintain as a fan or hers and Falcons that she hasn’t really been playing well for Nigeria. I think it’s been a combination of hard luck and bad choices in the field. She gets selfish when she was supposed to pass to a better placed player or she fails to convert sn obvious chance.
She was great in the under 20, she scored for Nigeria in the last World Cup but over all, she hasn’t been great with the Falcon. The good thing is that many of her fans have poor memory.
All the awards that you ignored, including being highest goal scorer or best player at two nations cup tournaments speak for themselves (and that's only a tip of the ice berg. I've not included her performance at qualifiers between 2014 and 2016). The problem is people that only started following the Falcons in 2018 and do not know what happened before then.
Nigerians are used to direct attacking football and we score a lot of goals. Thomas Dennerby came and realised that we are an attacking side, but our defence isn't so good. So he has tried to improve our defensive play, but it has affected our attack.
Desire Oparanozie, Asisat Oshoala, Francisca Ordega, etc. have not been scoring as many goals as they used to score before he became the coach.
By the way, don't forget that Oshoala also scored a brace in the other El Classico (Atletico vs Barcelona) late last year. I created that thread that chronicled how Barcelona spanked Atletico 1-6. (Atletico are the defending league champions).
KosiGee: Stop being mischievous. You should query the Nigerian reps and the reasons for their voting pattern not to single any particular individual or group of people out.
[b]Oshoala has been amazing for club but same can’t be said of country. Have you watched her playing for Falcons?/b]
I would vote for her without hesitation if I was there, she won the award and people shouldn’t be making a mountain out of a mole hill because of the votes she received from the Nigerian contingent.
Oshoala has been amazing for country (that's why she's won lots of awards with both the Falcons and the Falconets).
naptu2: If that was true then Asisat Oshoala wouldn't have won:
1) The golden ball for being the best player at the 2014 FIFA Under 20 World Cup (first picture).
2) The golden boot for being the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA Under 20 World Cup (second picture).
3) The golden ball for being the best player at the 2014 African Women's Nations Cup (third picture). She also won the silver boot for being the second highest goal scorer at the tournament (second to Desire Oparanozie).
4) The golden boot for being the highest goal scorer at the 2016 African Women's Nations Cup (fourth picture).
She also wouldn't have scored lots of goals for Nigeria in many qualifying matches.
Two Nigerians are currently featuring on opposite sides as Barcelona take on Tacon, a team that is in the process of being taken over by Real Madrid. Asisat Oshoala of Barcelona has scored 4 goals, while Osinachi Ohale of Tacon is trying to mark her and reduce Barcelona's flood of goals.
Asisat's first goal came in the 2nd minute, her second goal was in the 19th minute, her 3rd goal came in the 47th minute and her 4th in the 63rd minute.
It's just the second minute of the game. Kheira plays a long pass from Barca's half to the right wing. The right winger played a long cross field ball towards Tacon's goal. This was the problem, Tacon's goalkeeper and defenders were watching the ball because they didn't know whether it would go in or not. It seems like it was only Ohale that realised the danger at the last minute, but it was too late, Oshoala had snuck in on the left side of the post and she knocked the ball into the goal.
Simplyleo: Indigenes of Lagos are called Lagosians Indigenes of Delta state - Deltans From Bayelsa - Bayelsan From Kogi - Kogites From Kwara - Kwarans From Abia - Abians Akwa Ibom - Akwa Ibomites etc
But how do you call people from Adamawa? Is it Adamawians? Same goes for Benue, Enugu, Edo Bauchi, Kano, Katsina and a host of others.
Sports › Re: Asisat Oshoala Scores 4 Goals In El Classico. by naptu2(op): 7:01am On Jan 12, 2020
