The Director General, National Sports
Commission, Mallam Alhassan Yakmut has congratulated Super Falcons
forward Asisat Oshoala for emerging the British Broadcasting Corporation
Women’s Player of the Year.
Yakmut who also congratulated the
Nigerian Football Federation for assisting the player achieve the
enviable feat said, “Nigerians and the National Sports Commission are
proud of the achievement recorded by Oshoala. By this singular and
remarkable feat, she has written her name and that of Nigeria in gold.”
The DG also recalled the recent
achievements recorded by Oshoala and re-affirmed that she did the nation
proud recently by emerging the African Women Player of the Year and
African Youth Player at the Glo-CAF African Football awards. Oshoala was
also named the Most Valuable Player of the FIFA U-20 Women World Cup in
Canada for emerging the top scorer of the tournament.
“As
a goal scorer, she was the Most Valuable Player at the African Women
Championship in Namibia last year when Nigeria clinched her seventh
title of the tournament,” he said.
Yakmut then urged other athletes to emulate Asisat Oshoala by making the nation proud.
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