Poor treatment to Nigeria’s Falconets as U-20 World Cup draws near

The Nigeria Girls U-20 nationwide group, the Falconets on Wednesday trekked to their coaching floor on the Coaching Pitch 1 of Moshood Abiola Stadium Abuja.

The gamers who’ve been deserted by the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) since they resumed tenting, needed to come down from the nationwide group bus to finish the journey, trekking to their coaching venue after the group bus ran out of gas.

It took the intervention of the Crew Secretary, Patricia Osuji who raised cash to buy gas for the bus to convey the gamers again to their resort in Utako, Abuja. Patricia additionally doubles as Secretary to the Common Secretary of Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF), Mohammed Sanusi

In the meantime, Sanusi, NFF President, Amaju Pinnick and different members of the federation are presently in Morocco for the continued African Girls’s Nations Cup, leaving the gamers and officers in agony and regrets three weeks to the graduation of the world cup in Costa Rica.

Worse nonetheless, the group which shall be in motion on eleventh August on the 2022 FIFA U-20 Girls World Cup in Costa Rica, a day after the Kick off haven’t performed any high quality pleasant matches in preparation for the herculean job forward of them. Since their tenting started in Abuja, the 2010 and 2014 World Cup finalists had been capable of play two pleasant matches with Abuja based mostly Naija Ratels.

A group that would not rating a purpose through the 2021/2022 NWFL Tremendous 6 in Edo State. On Thursday, in a warm-up match towards U-16 group of an Abuja based mostly Soccer Academy (FC Roma), there was no association for match officers to deal with the sport. The coaches needed to name on a person who got here to look at the nationwide group play to officiate the match

Investigation revealed that NWFL Tremendous 6 champions, Bayelsa Queens turned down a pleasant match with the nationwide group.

Recall that the Tremendous Falcons in Morocco refused to coach in protest for his or her unpaid match bonuses and allowances forward of their Third Place match towards Zambia.

The 2022 FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup will start on 10 August and ends on 28 August. In group C, Nigeria will face France on Thursday August 11 on the San Jose Estadio Nacional, earlier than they locked horns with Korea on Sunday August 14 on the Alajuela Morera Soto Stadium. On the venue, Canada will check their energy with the African facet on August 22 at 8pm.

Solely 4 nations, specifically Germany, Brazil, USA and Nigeria have performed in all editions of the FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup for the reason that competitors was launched as a U19 championship in Canada 20 years in the past.

Germany have received the championship thrice (2004, 2010 and 2014); USA have received thrice (2002, 2008 and 2012) whereas Nigeria have twice reached the Remaining, shedding to Germany in 2010 and 2014.