“Falconets being stranded has nothing to do with NFF”- NFF Secretary General

The Nigeria Soccer Federation has come out to clear the air on the scenario confronted by Nigeria’s U20 group Falconets.

The Nigerian group crashed out of the FIFA Girls’s U20 World Cup in Costa Rica on Sunday after they misplaced 0-2 to the Netherlands.

The group have been attributable to return to Nigeria however received stranded at Turkey Airport attributable to flight points.

Secretary Normal of the federation Mohammed Sanusi has come out to elucidate why the group face such a scenario.

“The NFF didn’t e book the group’s tickets from Costa Rica; FIFA did. FIFA additionally didn’t envisage the hitches that noticed the group delayed for greater than three hours in Bogota, and one other one hour in Panama. By the point the group received to Istanbul, the flight to Abuja had left.

“Our officers pleaded for compassionate transit visas in order to take the gamers and officers to a resort contained in the city, however this was not potential as they have been knowledgeable that Nigeria had been faraway from the checklist of nations whose residents have been issued visa-on-arrival in Turkey.

The airline then took the group to a sleeping space on the airport and gave them tickets to have meals each 5 hours.

“This case has nothing to do with NFF, who had made preparations to obtain the group in Abuja earlier than the issues in journey preparations,” NFF Normal Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, defined.