Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria celebrates a purpose in the semi-final of the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, Canada, as opposed to Korea’s PDR at Moncton Stadium on August 20, 2014 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Blue-big-end striker Asisat Oshoala has one of Africa’s biggest stars even though his family circle tried to stop him from playing.
On Friday, the 25-year-old Nigerian will try to push Barcelona into a consecutive Champions League final by facing Atletico Madrid in a single quarter-final in Bilbao.
Last May, she left the bench in Budapest with Barcelona and 4 in Lyon and scored a last-minute comfort purpose for the first African woman to score in the European Cup final.
“I am proud to have scored Barca’s first goal in a European final, but I am also not happy with the result,” he told barcelona’s online page in an interview published on 16 August.
She voted as the most productive player in Africa in 2019. The fourth time he won the prize.
However, her circle of relatives sought to have Oshoala surrender before she began in Ikorodu, a poor and overcrowded neighborhood on the outskirts of Lagos.
“My parents opposed Asisat pursuing a career in male sport, at least because she is a woman and we are devout Muslims, but she refused to give up her dream,” her older brother Abdulbasic told AFP, praising her “tenacity.”
African Footballer of the Year Award in Abuja, January 5, 2017.
Oshoala has the website of the opposition club.
“I have to admit there were a lot of arguments with my mother, but I did it,” he said.
His parents were merchants. She is one of seven children of her father’s two wives.
“He’s a general in my country,” he says. “In a Muslim society, a man can have more than one woguy. I think it’s pretty herbal because that’s how it’s been for me.”
“Superzee,” as his classmates call him, gambled at school and on the street before joining his first club, FC Robo Queens.
“What struck me was the compatibility and athletic it is. She will remain my most productive lead because we had a very smart midfielder to pass the ball to her and run towards the goal,” said the club’s founder, Emmanuel Osahon, who saw her at a tournament in Lagos, told AFP.
“I’m not surprised at how she’s come since her career because she’s very disciplined, specific and ambitious.”
She began as a defensive midfielder and nicknamed “Seedorf” after former Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf.
She played for Rivers Angels, Nigeria’s leading women’s soccer club, but began to draw attention in Europe when she played the lead at the 2014 U-20 Women’s World Cup and finished as the most sensible goalscorer.
Korean RPD Jon So Yon fights Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria in the semi-final of the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, Canada, at Moncton Stadium on August 20, 2014 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Oshoala joined Liverpool in 2015.
“I had other offers of be, but since I speak English, I chose this option,” he said. After an injured stint at Merseyside, he moved to Arsenal and in 2017 accepted an offer from Dalian in China, before joining Barcelona in early 2019.
“It’s a magical moment,” said Oshoala, who has his appetite to replace it with his hair.
“If I see a color that I like, I dye my hair,” he told the Barcelona website. “It’s orange right now, but next week it may be red, pink or yellow. Not for a specific reason, just because I like change.”
He founded the Asisat Oshoala Foundation in Lagos, which works on a wide variety of sports, educational, social and medical projects for young footballers, with the money from its sponsor Nike.
“We only paint with women because children have enough opportunities anyway,” she says. “It’s hard for African women to play football and other sports.” He also helped his circle of relatives by buying a space from his mother in the old lake district. You may have forgotten the arguments of the afterlife.