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Flamingos To Be Honored As Leadership’s Sportsperson Of The Year
World Cup bronze medallists, Flamingos have been named the Sportsperson of the Yr 2022 by Management Newspapers Group Restricted, one among Nigeria’s main media firms.
The honour will probably be bestowed on Nigeria’s U17 women on the 2022 Management Annual Convention and Awards scheduled for the Abuja Worldwide Convention Centre on Tuesday, 31st January 2023.
In its discover of the Flamingos’ choice after a diligent course of by the Awards’ Nomination and Choice Committee, the newspaper firm wrote: “Amid a number of nominees with glorious credentials, you may have been chosen for this prestigious award for successful Nigeria’s first-ever medal on the FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup, the second African group to attain the feat after Ghana in 2012…the choice board discovered the group most certified because the LEADERSHIP Sportsperson of the Yr 2022.”
It may be recalled that the Flamingos arrived in India for final 12 months’s FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup having chalked up 15 targets in six African qualification matches, and having performed in all earlier editions of the event bar the 2018 finals in Uruguay.
In India, the Flamingos misplaced narrowly 1-2 to Germany of their opening match, earlier than hammering New Zealand 4-0 and edging Chile 2-1 to achieve the quarter-finals. Within the quarter-finals, they defeated USA 4-3 on penalties after each groups ended regulation and further time 1-1.
Within the semi finals, Colombia proved too powerful on penalties after a 0-0 draw following regulation and further time, and within the third-place match, the Nigerian women outclassed Germany 3-2 on penalties following a 3-3 draw. By the way, Germany had been Ghana’s victims when Nigeria’s fierce West African rivals gained Africa’s first medal (bronze) within the FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup in Azerbaijan in 2012.
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