This call was made by Board member of the NFF and Chairman of the Nigeria Women Football League, Chief (Mrs) Dilichukwu Onyedinma at Abuja when he told journalists in attendance that due to the huge support the first lady has always given the Falcons, she deserved to lead them out.
She also said that for the team to succeed they will need her patience and good luck.
Onyedinma also went on to talk of the falcons
success since first lady came into office, he revealed that they have
been able to re-position the Women League with the resultant effect of
the discovery of young and talented girls from across the country.
She then went on to list the successful year
female football has attained in the country, which included the
achievements of the National U-17 women team, the Flamingoes who reached
the quarter finals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Costa Rica.
She said: “Apart from the Flamingoes, we
also had the National U-20 Women National Team, the Falconets that went
to Canada in August and played to the finals of the FIFA U-20 Women
World Cup with 99% of the players from our league here in Nigeria, only
one player came from a school in the United States,”.
Dilichukwu explained, adding, “Only last
weekend, we took another set of Super Falcons team to Namibia to reclaim
the African Women Championship. In the victorious team, only five
players came from overseas, the remaining 17 are all from our league
clubs here at home”.
No comments:
Post a Comment