BARCELONA, Spain -- When Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala was a young girl growing up in Nigeria, her mum wouldn't give her money for food if she had been playing football on the streets with the boys. You can imagine, then, how she reacted when, at the age of 15, she found out her daughter was going to drop out of school in pursuit of a career in the game. "I actually stopped going to school because at some point I had a lot of problems with my parents," Oshoala told ESPN FC in May. "They wanted...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Asisat Oshoala's lonely road from Lagos to Barcelona to France
BARCELONA, Spain -- When Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala was a young girl growing up in Nigeria, her mum wouldn't give her money for food if she had been playing football on the streets with the boys. You can imagine, then, how she reacted when, at the age of 15, she found out her daughter was going to drop out of school in pursuit of a career in the game. "I actually stopped going to school because at some point I had a lot of problems with my parents," Oshoala told ESPN FC in May. "They wanted...
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