FIFA President, Infantino, Rains Encomiums On Late Ismaila Mabo

President of world football-governing physique, FIFA Mr. Gianni Infantino has described the previous Tremendous Falcons’ Head Coach, Ismaila Mabo who died just lately as “among the best coaches of his era.”

In a letter of condolence that he personally signed and addressed to President of NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on twentieth March 2023, Infantino expressed, on behalf of the worldwide soccer neighborhood, FIFA’s deepest sympathy to the NFF, household, buddies and family members on the passing of the titan.

“I want to categorical my sincerest and heartfelt condolences on the passing of the previous girls’s nationwide group coach, Mabo Ismaila. Phrases appear insufficient to specific the disappointment we really feel for this loss. Former worldwide participant with common appearances within the senior nationwide group, he notably defended the colors of Mighty Jets FC within the late Sixties and Seventies.

“As a coach, Mabo Ismaila led the senior girls nationwide group, the Tremendous Falcons, to the quarter finals of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup in 1999, to 2 Olympic Soccer Tournaments in 2000 and 2004, in addition to to the 1998 and 2000 girls’s Africa Cup of Nations titles.

“Thought-about as among the best coaches of his era, inspiration to youthful generations of coaches, having contributed to the expansion of ladies’s soccer within the nation and around the globe, his legacy and achievements, and specifically his character, his loyalty and his human qualities won’t be forgotten and he will probably be actually missed.”

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