Nigeria’s Chiamaka Cynthia Nnadozie has confirmed her place among the many greatest goalkeepers on the planet after ending fourth within the 2025 Ladies’s Yashin Trophy on the Ballon d’Or Awards in Paris.
The Ladies’s Yashin Trophy, launched this 12 months to honour the world’s prime feminine goalkeepers, was received by England’s Hannah Hampton.
She was adopted by Germany’s Ann-Katrin Berger in second place, Spain’s Cata Coll in third, whereas Nnadozie got here fourth. The Netherlands’ Daphne van Domselaar accomplished the highest 5.
For Nnadozie, this award is one other step in a profession that retains breaking new floor.
The 24-year-old, who performs for Brighton Women crew in England has already been voted Africa’s Greatest Ladies’s Goalkeeper two years in a row on the CAF Awards. She was additionally one in all Nigeria’s most vital gamers on the 2024 Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco, the place her saves and management helped the Tremendous Falcons win the trophy once more.
Her profile was massively boosted after the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
In that match, Nnadozie produced some of the memorable performances in Nigeria’s well-known 3–2 victory over hosts Australia.
Ending fourth within the Yashin Trophy is a big second for Nnadozie and for African girls’s soccer.
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It exhibits that Nigerian gamers can compete with the perfect in Europe and past.
Nonetheless solely 24, Nnadozie has many extra years forward of her on the prime degree.
With Brighton and the Tremendous Falcons, she is going to proceed to intention greater — and maybe climb even nearer to the primary spot in future awards.
