Zambia striker Barbra Banda and Malawi’s Chawinga sisters Tabitha and Temwa have been named on the five-strong shortlist to develop into African Girls’s Footballer of the 12 months.
Nigeria goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie and Morocco ahead Sanaa Mssoudy spherical out the contenders.
The winner shall be introduced on the Confederation of African Soccer (Caf) Awards in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Monday, 16 December.
Temwa Chawinga and Banda had been the highest two scorers in America’s Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL) this season, with the Malawi ahead netting 21 targets to Banda’s 17.
Nevertheless, the Zambian bagged the winner within the championship closing to fireside Orlando Satisfaction to the NWSL title, and was final week.
Lyon’s Tabitha Chawinga led the scoring charts within the French prime flight final season, whereas Paris FC’s Nnadozie was named because the division’s finest keeper.
AS FAR’s Mssoudy gained the award for the most effective participant on the Caf Girls’s Champions League, though she needed to accept a runners-up medal as