Nigeria goalkeeper, Chiamaka Nnadozie is in the running fo the D1 Arkema League goalkeeper of the season award, reports Completesports.com.
Nnadozie was nominated for the individual prize by the French Professional Players Union.
The Super Falcons goalkeeper will battle Mylene Chavas of Girondis Bordeaux, Olympique Lyon’s Christiane Endler, GPSO 92 ISSY’s Cosette Morche and Barbora Votikova of Paris Saint-Germain for the individual prize.
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The 21-year-old has been one of the top performers for Paris FC in the French top-flight this season.
The young goalie has kept 13 clean sheets in 19 league appearances for her modest club.
Nnadozie’s heroics between the sticks has also helped Paris FC qualified for next season’s UEFA Women’s Champions League.
Nnadozie linked up with Paris FC from Nigerian outfit Rivers Angels in 2020 and has made 34 league appearances for the club.
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She is the youngest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, a feat achieved against Korea in France in 2019, aged 18 and 186 days. Super Falcons won the game by 2-0.
In December 2021, she was named the seventh best goalkeeper in the world by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).
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Good luck Amaka!!!
CS drop the link let we the fans vote for her. I saw this article on Naija bias and voted but here there’s no link just news.
Certainly she is one of the best in the world !!..she should be gunning for African Woman Football of the year , wish her the best !!
Let’s see if the NFF will not drop her for being foreign-born
Foreign born bawo?
@GentleD, how did she become a foreign born to become a Rivers Angels
goalie? In which country was she born and which of her parents is the
foreigner.