Flamingos bags Best Sports persons Award

The World Cup bronze medallists, Flamingos have been named the Sportsperson of the Yr 2022 by Management Newspapers Group Restricted, one in all Nigeria’s main media corporations.

The honour shall be bestowed on Nigeria’s U17 women on the 2022 Management Annual Convention and Awards scheduled for the Abuja Worldwide Convention Centre immediately.

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 wonderful credentials, you have got been chosen for this prestigious award for successful Nigeria’s first-ever medal on the FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup.

the second African crew to realize the feat after Ghana in 2012… the choice board discovered the crew most certified because the LEADERSHIP Sportsperson of the Yr 2022.”

It may be recalled that the Flamingos arrived in India for final yr’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 succeed in the quarter-finals. Within the quarter-finals, they defeated USA 4-3 on penalties after each groups ended regulation and further time 1-1.