The Nigerian’s third African player of the year award, playing for Dalian Quanjian, has been the sweetest after a torrid time at Liverpool and Arsenal
Mohamed Salah’s player of the year award stole the headlines at the Confederation of African Football awards in Ghana but the triumph of the Nigerian forward Asisat Oshoala in collecting the women’s equivalent was similarly special.
On receiving the accolade for the third time – the others coming in 2014 and 2016 – Oshoala was teary as the road to her latest win has been anything but straightforward.
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