Ajibade wins Atletico Madrid women’s Player of the Season award

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Super Falcons star forward, Rasheedat Ajibade, has been named Atletico Madrid women’s Player of the Season for 2023/24.

The Spanish women’s top-flight club disclosed this on their X handle.

Ajibade scored 10 goals and provided eight assists for Atletico Madrid in the just concluded campaign.

The 24-year-old netted the crucial goal in the 1-0 win against Villarreal on the final day, which secured qualification for next season’s UEFA women’s Champions League. preliminary round.

Ajibade is expected to feature for the Super Falcons at this year’s Paris Olympic games.

In the qualifiers against South Africa, she scored the only goal in the 1-0 aggregate win against the African champions.

Ajibade played for FC Robo from the 2013 Nigeria Women Premier League season till 2018 season. In 2014, she was listed as one of the best young talents in the league.

In September 2018, she won the Nigerian women football freestyle competition for the second consecutive time.

Despite Robo not being among teams that finished tops in 2017 in the league, Ajibade was voted player of the season after scoring eight goals to save her team from relegation. And in May 2018, she was nominated as the best player in the 2017 Nigeria Women Premier League at Nigeria Pitch Awards.

On January 1, 2021, Atletico Madrid announced the signing of Ajibade on a two-year deal. In January 2022, she extended her contract with the club for a further three years, until 2025.

Ajibade was part of the Super Falcons squad that won the 2018 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Ghana and featured at the 2023 FIFA women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Also, she captained the Super Falcons for the first time in a 1-0 friendly victory over Slovenian club, Olimpija Lubijana in Vienna, Austria.