Wale Jagun
Asisat Osoala, the Super Falcons and Barcelona Femeni star has been nominated for the 2022 Women’s Ballon D’Or award.
The striker who won the golden boot in the Spanish Primera Division made the 20-woman list announced on the organizer’s social media handle on Friday.
Some of the other nominees are: Selma Bacha, Fridolina Rolfo, Vivianne Miedema, Lucy Bronze, Sam Kerr, Christiane Endler, Lena Oberdorf, Kadidiatou Diani, Catarina Macario and Alexia Putellas.
She had two weeks ago won the African Women’s Player of the Year for the record fifth time.
Remaining nominees in the Women’s category of the Ballon d’Or are Alexandra Popp, Aitana Bonmatí, Wendie Renard, Alex Morgan, Beth Mead, Marie-Antoinette Katoto, Millie Bright, Trinity Rodman and Ada Hegerberg.
Nominees for Men’s category are Trent Alexander-Arnold, Karim Benzema, Joao Cancelo, Casemira, Thibaut Courtois, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kevin De Bruyne, Luis Diaz, Fabinho, Phil Foden, Erling Haaland, Sébastien Haller, Harry Kane, Joshua Kimmich, Rafael Leao, Robert Lewandowski, Riyad Mahrez and Mike Maignan
Others are, Sadio Mané, Kylian Mbappé, Luka Modric, Christopher Nkunku, Darwin Nuñe, Antonio Rüdiger, Mohamed Salah, Bernardo Silva, Son Heung-min, Virgil van Dijk, Vinicius Junior andDusan Vlahovic.
Winners in the both categories will be announced at a ceremony on October 17, 2022.
