World football governing body, FIFA, has celebrated Asisat Oshoala for finishing as top scorer in the Primera Iberdrola (Spanish women’s first division).
Oshoala concluded the season with 20 goals and three assists in 19 games despite a three month injury-induced layoff.
Geyse Ferreira of Real Madrid also scored 20 goals but did it in 27 appearances and recorded one assist.
And reacting to Oshoala’s top scorer’s award, FIFA described her performance for Barcelona this term as perfect.
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“20 goals and a perfect club season.
“@AsisatOshoala has always been unstoppable! 🔥“ FIFA wrote on their Women’s World Cup Twitter handle.
Barcelona Femeni won the 2021/2022 Primera Iberdrola with a perfect record of 30 wins from 30 matches, scoring 159 goals and conceding 11 in the process.
The Catalan club are aiming to win the treble like the previous season, as they are in the final of the Women’s Champions League – to clash with Lyon at the Juventus Stadium in Turin on May 21.
Oshoala’s team will also play Real Madrid in the semi-final of the Copa La Reina.
Meanwhile, Oshoala is among 32 players invited by Super Falcons coach Randy Waldrum, for a two-week camp in Morocco ahead of this year’s CAF Women’s Cup of Nations.
Oshoala was the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and was named best player at the tournament.
She was also named best player and second top goalscorer with the Super Falcons team who won the 2014 African Women’s Championship.
On 8 June 2015, Oshoala scored her first 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup goal when she scored the team’s second goal in a 3–3 draw with Sweden in Winnipeg.
After the team was defeated 2–0 by Australia and 1–0 by the United States, they did not advance to the knockout stages.
Oshoala was also a member of the Super Falcons team who won the African Women’s Championship in 2016 and 2018. She scored three goals in the 2018 Edition in Ghana.
