Assisat Oshoala Launches the Assisat Oshoala Academy, in Partnership with Nike Football and Women Win
Nigerian footballer, Assisat Oshoala has partnered with Nike Football and Amsterdam-based Women Win to launch the Assisat Oshoala Football Academy in Nigeria. The Assisat Oshoala Football Academy is an initiative created to provide access to sports and education for young girls in Nigeria.
The Asisat Oshoala Foundation, which was set up by the footballer in 2015, will be responsible for the daily management of the new project. Women Win will also help hasten the academy’s development.
The Assisat Oshoala Academy will provide 30 girls between the ages of 12 and 18, with access to football training for 90 minutes; three times a week. This will be followed with life skills and education around women empowerment and rights.
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Graduates from this academy will be expected to use their leadership and life skills to make a positive impact in their various communities.
Assisat Oshoala is widely regarded as one of the greatest African female footballers of all time, and one of the best in the world. She is the most decorated African female footballer and a four-time African Women’s Footballer of the Year. She’s currently a striker for Primera División club FC Barcelona Femení and captain for the Nigerian women’s national team.
Assisat previously played for two prominent English clubs – Arsenal and Liverpool, Chinese club Dailan, and Nigerian clubs Rivers Angels and FC Robo.
The Barcelona striker was named winner of the 2015 FA Women’s Cup with Arsenal, two league championships, a cup title with Dalian, and the 2019–2020 Copa de la Reina and 2019–2020 Supercopa de España Femenina with Barcelona.
Assisat is also recognized as the first African and Nigerian player to score a goal in a UEFA Women’s Champions League final and the first African woman to win the UEFA Champions League in 2021. She was recently named as part of the FIFA technical advisory group for the growth of women’s football.
With all of these achievements and more to come, Assisat wants to make sports education and opportunities accessible to young girls in Nigeria with the Assisat Oshoala Football Academy.
Congratulations Assisat on this new project.