SAN JOSE — It was a sunny day, just before Bay FC’s final game before the Olympic break, and Asisat Oshoala was trying to make a point.
“I don’t know if you understand what I’m saying,” said the pink-haired soccer star. “It was always for fun. Nothing professional.”
As a kid growing up in Nigeria, she never dreamed she’d make it this far.
She never knew professional soccer existed in her country.
But here she is, now 29, one of the most accomplished goal-scorers in European soccer...