Super Falcons Star, Asisat Oshoala Crowned BBC Women's Footballer Of The Year

Nigeria and Liverpool forward, Asisat Oshoala has been named as the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year for 2015. The 20-year old is the first player to win the new award from the BBC World Service, voted for by football fans around the world. She beat Spain's Veronica Boquete, German Nadine Kessler, Scot Kim Little and Brazilian Marta to the honour. Below is her statement;

"I would like to say thank you to the BBC, to my fans around the world and to everyone who voted. It's a really good thing for us as a team because we now know that we have something great and now we want to go at the trophy. We can do it, we did it in 2014 we can also do it this year as well.
"There is going to be a lot of motivation for women's football in Nigeria now because of this award because there are a lot of fans out there. Support for women's football in Nigeria is now growing very high.
"I know my Liverpool Ladies coach is going to be happy right now. Before I left the UK he called me and said to me 'don't worry I hope you win the award and we're going to celebrate it when you come back'."

Source: BBC.com