Asisat Oshoala named African Women Player of the year for the third time
It's been an emotional year for me personally when I left Arsenal Ladies in the UK, many said my career would be gone but I told myself I can do it & here I am today. To the young ones out there let no one down you, you can do it. - Asisat Oshoala.
The 23-year-old was filled with emotions as she picked up her award at the 2017 African Footballer of the Year award ceremony held in Ghana.
Elated Oshoala dropped tears of joy as she emerged the winner in spite how tough and challenging the year 2017 was for her.
She said, “It really been an emotional journey through 2017, I must say this is one of the personal moment in my career because when I left Arsenal and moved to China a lot of people said that Asisat your career is going to be gone.”
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| Asisat Oshoala has now won the African best player award 3 times |
But the elated former Liverpool and Arsenal Ladies forward was in tears of joy as she manages to make her remarks stating “But I told myself that I can do this. And I think I have done it.
She wins the award three times in a row. She, however, gave this advice for young African Girls,
She said,”I want to use this opportunity to encourage all the young girls do not let anyone talk you down, don’t listen to anyone. follow your heart.”
The Nigerian football plays for Chinese side Dalian Quanjian F.C. in the Chinese Women’s Super League as a forward was named best player and was the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
She was also named best player and the second top goalscorer with the Super Falcons team who won the 2014 African Women’s Championship.
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