Barcelona's Oshoala makes Spanish Primera Iberdrola Team of the Season

Samuel Ahmadu
Africa Women's Football Correspondent
20:49. 07/06/2020

The top-flight organisers have named the best performing players in the last campaign, and included the Nigeria international
Barcelona forward Asisat Oshoala has been named in the Spanish Primera Iberdrola Team of the Season for the 2019-20 campaign.

Oshoala has emerged as one of the superstars in the top-flight, putting her strength, power, and physicality on display while scoring goals aplenty for Barcelona, since moving to Spain on January 31, 2019.

The Nigeria international played a huge role in helping the Catalans clinch their first league title in five years without losing a match in 21 games last season.

The FC Robo Queens product scored 20 goals and gave one assist in 19 outings to help Lluis Cortes' side finish at the top before the league was called off due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The 3-3-4 formation list, dominated by Barcelona, saw Sandra Panos claim the goal post, while Mapi Leon and Marian Torrejon, along with Deportivo La Corona's Maria Mendez named in the defence.

In the midfield are Ona Batlle of Levante and Barcelona duo of Patri Guijarro and Alexia Putellas, while Oshoala led the attack with Jenni Hermoso, Graham Hansen and Atletico Madrid's Lucy Santos.

The Super Falcons star is the only African among the nominations, with the likes of Logrono striker Jade Boho, who managed 12 goals last term, overlooked.

So far, the reigning African Women's Player of the Year has scored 36 goals for Barcelona in 18 months, becoming one of the top 10 all-time scorers of the Spanish giants.

On her initial loan spell, she scored eight goals in 11 games, including their only goal in the Champions League final, and made history as the first African to register a goal at that stage of the European competition.

At Barcelona, the 25-year-old celebrated her first silverware with the Copa Catalunya last August, before clinching the Super Women's Cup in February and recently the Spanish top-flight title.

naptu2:
FC Robo (2013)

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Liverpool (2015)
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Arsenal (2016)
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Dalian (2017-2018)
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Barcelona (2019-2022)
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1) The golden ball for being the best player at the 2014 FIFA Under 20 World Cup.
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2) The golden boot for being the highest goal scorer at the 2014 FIFA Under 20 World Cup.
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3) The golden ball for being the best player at the 2014 African Women's Nations Cup. She also won the silver boot for being the second highest goal scorer at the tournament (second to Desire Oparanozie).
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4) The golden boot for being the highest goal scorer at the 2016 African Women's Nations Cup.
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Also

1) highest goal scorer in the Nigerian Women’s League (2013)

2) Winner of the Nigerian Women’s League (with River’s Angels) (2014).

3) Winner of the Nigerian Women’s Cup (2013 and 2014)

4) Winner of the English FA Women’s Cup (2016)

5) Winner of the Chinese Women’s Super League 2017 & 2018.

6) Highest goal scorer in the Chinese Women’s Super League (2017).

7) Winner of the Chinese Women’s Super-Cup (2017)

8 ) Winner of the Copa Catalunya (2019).

9) Winner of the Spanish Women’s Super-Cup (2020).

10) BBC (World) Women’s Player of the Year (2015)

11) African Women’s Player of the Year (2014, 2016, 2017 & 2019)

12) Winner of the African Women’s Nations Cup (2014, 2016 & 2018).

13) 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League silver medallist (she scored in the final).

14) Winner of the Spanish Women's League (2020)

yanabasee1:
My crush.....

yungsmart:
Assisat oshoala well deserved, she also deserves the player of the season. GOAT of Nigerian women football.

yanabasee1:
My crush.....

festacman:
Congratulations to Asisat Oshoala!

Truth be told. As a SPECIAL player, Asisat needs to step up, 'own' the Super Falcons and carry the team on her shoulders like other special players all over the world do.

Being an important player for Barcelona female team and then coming home to Nigeria to become just ONE of of Super Falcons is not good enough. This is time to drop negative the mentality of "I will just do my thing on the field and leave". This is time for Asisat to step up and drive Super Falcons to greater heights especially on global stage.

GeneralPula:


It’s not so easy like that bro. She alone can’t carry a whole team.