THE NIGERIAN, HONORED BY THE WICC
Award to Oshoala for her contribution to women's football
Published:8/11/2022 - 14:00h
Updated:8/11/2022 - 14:00h
Asisat Oshoala has been recognized within the WICC Best XI in its third edition. The Nigerian has been considered an important figure in the promotion of women's football worldwide
In the frame of the Women's International Champions Cup (WICC), the forward of the feminine section of the FC Barcelona, Asisat Oshoala, has been awarded by his fight by the promotion of the feminine football to world-wide level beside other players that also lead efforts in pro of the sport in the actuality, a prize also to the values of the club in this discipline.
The Nigerian formed part of the WICC Best XI in his third edition, to the equal that other big figures of the feminine football to world-wide level, like the trainer of the English selection, Sarina Wiegman, the forward Linda Caicedo, figure of the feminine football in Colombia with the Sportive Cali, as well as the president of the United States Soccer Federation, Cindy Parlow Cone.
The director of the WICC, Susie Fiore, has valued the role of each one of these activists in the promotion of the feminine sport: "The winners work untiringly to defend the feminine football, often in spite of big obstacles. Without the contributions of the homenajeadas of 2022, the feminine football would not have the explosive growth that are seeing today".
Between the awarded also have been present the cofounders of Angel City and the Kansas City Current, Kara Norman and Angie Long, respectively. Andrea Brimmer, director of Marketing of Ally and the activists Asthma Mirzae and Fran Hilton, also have been recognised in the event that has taken place in the frame of the Women's International Champions Cup.
The paper of the Barça in the feminine football
The prize to Asisat Oshoala also supposes a recognition to the efforts that heads the FC Barcelona like part of his institutional values for the promotion of the feminine football, that in the case of the Barcelona team has reached an important development that has translated in results inside the field as well as in individual distinctions.