Her mum, Shola, is a thoroughbred Lagos indigene who has a Canadian citizenship, while her father, Akinwole, who was born in Idanre, Ondo State, where the spreading hills is a spectacular tourist site, has an American citizenship, hence their habitat of Atlanta Georgia.
Awujo was thus eligible to represent the United States, where she was born; Nigeria, where her parents were born; and Canada, where her mother Shola holds citizenship. But in 2019, she represented the United States U-17 side at a UEFA Women’s Development Tournament in the Czech Republic, before Canada selected her for the rosters for the 2022 CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship, where she won a bronze medal, and the 2022 U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, where she played every minute as the Canadians crashed out from the group stage.
Awujo then earned her first-ever call up to Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team last September at just 18, after she was selected by head coach Bev Priestman ahead of a pair of international friendlies against Australia in Brisbane and Sydney.Afterwards she’s gone on to appear six times for the Canadian senior women’s team before the World Cup and would relish a seventh cap playing against her parents’ country on Friday.
The win helped the Nigerians top Group C in dominant fashion with maximum nine points and ensured Canada returned home without a point.
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