Super Falcons of Nigeria - Hall of Fame
Below are some of the professional football players in the women national team and those who have performed well in their featured matches and championships;
Florence Omagbemi is a Nigeria female football player and a former midfielder born on the 2nd of February, 1987. She is one of the professional players in the women football team who represented the country for years and had featured in about four FIFA Women's World Cups and also in the Africa Women Cup of Nations and championships on several occasions.
She had won the African Women's Cup of Nation on several occasions such as 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004 with the Super Falcons of Nigeria according to the recorded history. She was one of the participants at the 2000 Olympic as well.
Omagbemi who once assisted the Nigeria women's national under-20 football team coach was made an acting coach of Super Falcons in 2016; in that same year, she became the first woman coach to win the Africa Women Cup of Nation, AWCON on December 3rd 2016 as a player and a coach.
Asisat Oshoala (nickname: Seedorf) is a professional Nigerian female football player born in the year 1994 on the 4th of October in the city of Lagos Nigeria. She has an international career and has played with many football clubs at international levels.
She belongs to the professional football club in the Chinese women's super league known as Dalian Quanjian F.C. as a forward. She has also won the best striker for the season in 2017 at the Chinese Women's Super League.
Asisat Lamina Oshoala later joined Liverpool Ladies which is the highest division of women's football in England on January 23rd 2015. She became part of the Nigeria national women's team as a forward and has as well made fame by scoring most of the goals at several tournaments.
Her teammates refer to her as 'Superzee' as she is also known and addressed as the best player with seven goals. She was the top goal scorer at the 7th edition of FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in 2014. Similarly, in 2014 African Women's Championship she was noted as the best player and the second highest goal scorer of the Super Falcon team.
That same year, in the month of September, she was made a member of the order of the Niger by the then president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. On the 8th of June during the subsequent year, she opened up a senior FIFA World Cup account by scoring the country's second goal in a 3 - 3 draw with Sweden.
