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Can Oshoala win fifth CAF best player award?



Super Falcons and Barcelona striker Asisat Oshoala is gunning for a fifth CAF Women’s Player of The Year Award, but has Grace Chanda (Zambia/BIIK Kazygurt) and Ajara Nchout Njoya (Cameroon/Inter Milan) to contend with at a ceremony in Rabat, Morocco on Thursday (today).

Oshoala is the only Nigerian nominee at the 2022 CAF awards after Falcons’ coach Randy Waldrum, who was originally nominated for Coach of The Year, was dropped from the final shortlist list along with Monday Gift, and Super Eagles duo Moses Simon and Akinkunmi Amoo.

Oshoala secured equaled countrywoman Perpetua Nkwocha’s fourth CAF Women’s Player of the Year Award at the 2019 Awards Gala, but if she claims the title today, she’ll become the sole record holder for the most award wins, thus stamping her authority on the continent.

Despite being injury-laden for a large part of last season (three months), Oshoala finished top scorer in the Liga Iberdrola with 20 goals in 19 appearances to become the first African to win the Pichichi award in Spain.



Her Barcelona team also achieved the incredible feat of winning all 30 league games in their domestic division with Oshoala’s Golden Boot-winning goals contributing largely to the feat.


Although Barcelona Femeni fell to defeat in the Champions League final, Oshoala scored in the 4-0 win against Real Madrid to qualify for the final of the Spanish Cup, which they won to complete the domestic treble after winning the Supercopa.

Based on club form, Oshoala stands head and shoulders apart from other competitors Chanda and Njoya but has had a chaotic time with the national team.

She was not part of the Falcons’ qualifying campaign for the ongoing Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, while at the maiden edition of the Aisha Buhari Cup last year, she was unable to replicate her club form in the green and white.

Oshoala bowed out early from the WAFCON in Morocco after suffering an ankle injury in the opening day 2-1 defeat to Banyana.

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Past winners



2001[1] – Mercy Akide, Nigeria
2002[2] – Alberta Sackey, Ghana
2003[2][3] – Adjoa Bayor, Ghana
2004[2] – Perpetua Nkwocha, Nigeria
2005[2] – Perpetua Nkwocha, Nigeria
2006[4] – Cynthia Uwak, Nigeria
2007[5] – Cynthia Uwak, Nigeria
2008[6] – Noko Matlou, South Africa
2009[7] – not awarded
2010[8] – Perpetua Nkwocha, Nigeria
2011[9] – Perpetua Nkwocha, Nigeria
2012[10] – Genoveva Añonma, Equatorial Guinea
2013[11] – not awarded
2014[12][non-primary source needed] – Asisat Oshoala, Nigeria
2015[13] – Gaëlle Enganamouit, Cameroon
2016[14] – Asisat Oshoala, Nigeria
2017[15] – Asisat Oshoala, Nigeria
2018 – Thembi Kgatlana, South Africa
2019 – Asisat Oshoala, Nigeria

Two Nigerians, Asisat Oshoala and Perpetua Nkwocha have won the award a record four times.
If Oshoala wins it today they should will surpass Nkwocha by winning it 5 times

sure, she can win the 5th n set dt record..she had a wonderful club performance with Barcelona femeni last season, he did a lot of numbers in goals n won awards in spain..
even last season dt was cut by injury, she scored 20 goals in just 17 caps n shared d top scorer award with madrid ferriera dt scored 20 in 27 caps..
she would easily win the african best award and even win more to set a new record of most win because she is currently our hottest export when talking women football...

All the award categories


Full list of top 3 nominees ( in alphabetical order);

Ajara Nchout Njoya (Internazionale Milano Cameroon)
Asisat Oshoala (Barcelona Femenino, Nigeria)
Grace Chanda (Biik Kazygurt Zambia)


InterClub Player of the year( Women)
Andile Dlamini (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa)
Bambanani Mbane (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa)
Evelyn Badu (Sekondi Hascaas Ladies/Avaldsnes IL, Ghana)


Young Player of the year (Women)
Doris Boaduwaa (Sekondi Hascaas Ladies, Ghana)
Evelyn Badu (Sekondi Hascaas Ladies/Avaldsnes IL, Ghana)
Yasmine Zouhir (As Saint Etienne, Morocco)

Coach of the Year (Women)
Bruce Mwape (Zambia)
Desiree Ellis (South Africa)
Jerry Tshabalala (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Reynald Pedros (Morocco)

Club of the Year (Women)
AS FAR (Morocco)
Hascaas Ladies (Ghana)
Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)

robosky02:
All the award categories


Full list of top 3 nominees ( in alphabetical order);

Ajara Nchout Njoya (Internazionale Milano Cameroon)
Asisat Oshoala (Barcelona Femenino, Nigeria)
Grace Chanda (Biik Kazygurt Zambia)


InterClub Player of the year( Women)
Andile Dlamini (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa)
Bambanani Mbane (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa)
Evelyn Badu (Sekondi Hascaas Ladies/Avaldsnes IL, Ghana)


Young Player of the year (Women)
Doris Boaduwaa (Sekondi Hascaas Ladies, Ghana)
Evelyn Badu (Sekondi Hascaas Ladies/Avaldsnes IL, Ghana)
Yasmine Zouhir (As Saint Etienne, Morocco)

Coach of the Year (Women)
Bruce Mwape (Zambia)
Desiree Ellis (South Africa)
Jerry Tshabalala (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Reynald Pedros (Morocco)

Club of the Year (Women)
AS FAR (Morocco)
Hascaas Ladies (Ghana)
Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)

nice info my gee....u are doing well to Gv us happenings about naija n African football

She deserved it this year. I hope she wins

musterseeds:
She deserved it this year. I hope she wins

Lalasticlala mynd44 ...let's do this

Ajara Nchout and Asisat Oshoala will go head-to-head again at WAFCON 2022 in Morocco


As Super Falcons' star player Asisat Oshoala stepped up to receive her record-equalling fourth CAF African Women's Player of the Year Award in January 2020, it could all have been different for Ajara Nchout.


In the Egyptian city of Hurghada, Nchout made it to the podium alongside the 2018 winner, South Africa's Thembi Kgatlana. Coming off the back of 13 goals in 26 matches during the calendar year, Nchout took her place amongst the Top 3 women footballers on the continent.

Having finally wrestled the top status from veteran Gabrielle Onguene in the Cameroonian national team, continental dominance proved a much bigger challenge for Nchout in 2019. But with the return of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), the stage is set for the 29-year-old to make an assault on the continent again.

Ajara Nchout's national team record
Nchout made her debut for the Indomitable Lionesses at the 2012 London Olympic Games, playing all three matches in the group stage of the competition. The forward also made it to the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, helping the West African side reach the second round before crashing out of the Mundial.




The Njisse-born attacker made her WAFCON debut at the 2018 edition held in Ghana, helping the Indomitable Lionesses to a third-place finish having lost the semifinals on penalties to the Super Falcons of Nigeria.

Nchout continues to make great strides on the international stage, following up her 2012 Olympics and 2015 World Cup appearances with another World Cup appearance at the France 2019 edition and the 2020 Beijing Olympics.


Overall, Nchout has tallied five (5) goals and one (1) assist for the Cameroonian national team in 20 appearances across all competitions (including friendly matches).

Ajara Nchout's WAFCON record
The 2022 WAFCON is Nchout's second official outing in the tournament, having broken her duck at the 2018 showpiece.

Ajara Nchout

Matches as starter
1
Matches as substitute
At the 2018 edition, the then Sandviken striker announced herself to the continent with two (2) goals and one (1) assist in five games. The competition capped her most productive year to date, having scored 17 goals and one (1) assist during the 2018 calendar year.

Having now fully usurped Onguene as the star turn of the Indomitable Lionesses, Nchout will be hoping to help the West Africans win the tournament for the first time in their history, after four final heartbreaks in 1991, 2004, 2014 & 2016 (all at the hands of the Super Falcons of Nigeria).

Ajara Nchout's club career
Ajara Nchout started her club football career in the Russian top division with FC Energy Voronezh in 2011. In her sole season there, she scored five (5) goals in 23 appearances.

The Cameroonian forward then moved on to WFC Rossiyanka in the same league, playing only the 2012/13 season there and notching two (2) goals in 14 appearances.


Inter Milan star Ajara Njoya Nchout is arguably Cameroon's biggest star Pulse Nigeria
Since then, Nchout has turned out for American club Western New York Flash, Sweden's duo of Sundsvalls and Sandviken and Spanish sides Valerenga and Atletico Madrid.

The 29-year-old is currently with Italian side Inter Milan, having signed for the Blue and Blacks in 2021.

Ajara Nchout's FIFA Puskas Award nomination
Nchout's goal on Matchday 3 of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup against New Zealand was nominated for the 2019 FIFA Puskas Award.


On that day, Nchout scored both goals to edge their opponents 2-1 and she was also adjudged the Man-of-the-Match for her impressive performance.

Damola Ogungbe

Grace Chanda (Zambia/BIIK Kazygurt

Asisat Oshoala is named Player of the Year (WOMEN) for a record FIFTH time! �

She fully deserves it

And she finally won, yayyyy

musterseeds:
She deserved it this year. I hope she wins