NFF congratulate Athletico Madrid Star for being joint top-scorer at WAFCON 2022

The Nigeria Soccer Federation has congratulated Tremendous Falcons’ ahead Rasheedat Ajibade for rising as joint top-scorer of the just-ended twelfth Ladies Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco

The Tremendous Falcons earned a ticket to the FIFA World Cup finals even because the crew failed to comprehend its ambition of a tenth triumph.

Atletico Madrid dazzler Ajibade discovered the online within the Tremendous Falcons’ opening match towards South Africa, netted from the spot in a 4-0 rout of Burundi, earlier than scoring an necessary winner in a 1-0 win vs Cameroon within the quarterfinals.

NFF Normal Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi stated in a press launch: “We rejoice with Rahseedat Ajibade for her emergence as joint top-scorer of the event and we implore her to proceed to indicate much more prolificity and dedication within the jerseys of membership and nation.

“Her three targets absolutely helped the Tremendous Falcons to win a World Cup ticket. Our crew would definitely have been within the Last if not for the incident that led to her expulsion within the semi remaining match towards the host nation.

“She most likely would have gained the award outright if she completed the sport and performed yet one more match.”

Ajibade was ejected after 70 minutes of the semi remaining towards Morocco on the Complexe Prince Moulay Abdellah, with Nigeria already one lady down, and the Falcons performed the following 50 minutes (of regulation and further time) with solely 9 gamers, dropping within the ensuing penalty shoot-out.

Within the third-place match towards Zambia on Friday, a fierce shot by Evarine Suzeni Katongo within the twenty eighth minute struck the upright and bounced on the again of hardworking goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie for the one purpose of the match, with the Falcons failing to transform any of a slew of probabilities they created.