Nigeria’s Asisat Oshoala leave Bay FC for Saudi Women’s Al-Hilal

Former Barcelona guardant and Ballon d’Or nominee Oshoala leaves San Francisco for Saudi Women’s League connected escaped transfer.

Nigeria guardant Asisat Oshoala has joined Saudi Women’s Premier League nine Al-Hilal connected transportation from Bay FC successful the National Women’s Soccer League.

Terms of the statement were not disclosed. The 30-year-old Nigerian planetary signed a two-year declaration with Al-Hilal.

Oshoala joined Bay FC earlier its inaugural play successful 2024 from Barcelona, wherever she won 2 Women’s Champions League titles. She scored a team-high 7 goals successful her archetypal twelvemonth with the San Francisco Bay Area team.

The 30-year-old scored Bay FC’s archetypal franchise extremity connected March 17, 2024, successful the 17th infinitesimal of a lucifer against Angel City.

“Asisat has been an incredibly important portion of Bay FC history, not lone with her interaction connected the transportation but besides done the energy, professionalism, and kindness she brought each day,” Matt Patter, Bay’s sporting director, said successful a prepared connection Tuesday.

“She is simply a world-class subordinate and an adjacent amended person, and we are grateful for everything she contributed to our nine successful its archetypal season.”

Oshoala receives the Women’s grant for the African Footballer of the Year successful Rabat, Morocco successful 2022 [Abdelhak Balhaki/Reuters]

A six-time African subordinate of the year, her past being successful 2023, Oshoala was connected the Nigerian squad that won its 10th Africa Cup of Nations title successful July.

Born successful Ikorodu, Oshoala was besides the archetypal African pistillate to beryllium nominated for the Ballon d’Or award, the rubric regarded arsenic representing the champion subordinate successful the satellite each year.

She missed retired connected the 2022 grant to Alexia Putellas of Spain. That twelvemonth besides marked her sixth and past African Women’s Player of the Year award.

Oshoala joins chap Nigerians, Ashleigh Plumptre and Francisca Ordega, astatine Al-Hilal.

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