NFF Congratulates Mimi Calvin-Onwuka, Madu On WAFCON Feats – National

The Nigeria Soccer Federation, NFF has congratulated Nigerian officers Endurance Ndidi Madu and Mimisen Iyorhe Calvin-Onwuka for his or her historic feats of their numerous roles on the ongoing twelfth Girls Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.

Madu, who additionally officiated on the Olympic Video games in Tokyo final yr, turned the primary Nigerian referee to officiate in a Girls AFCON match utilizing the Video Assistant Referee machine when she took cost of the group stage encounter between Burkina Faso and Uganda. She served because the fourth official in two different video games.

Mimisen Calvin-Onwuka turned the primary Nigeria assistant referee within the quarter-finals of a Girls AFCON that deployed the Video Assistant Referee when she performed that position in the course of the quarter-final encounter between South Africa’s Banyana Banyana and Tunisia. Calvin-Onwuka had earlier been a part of the group stage encounters between Togo and Tunisia, and the match between Burkina Faso and Uganda the place Madu was the referee.

“We congratulate Endurance Madu and Mimisen Calvin-Onwuka for his or her historic outings and we urge them to proceed to do Nigeria proud in any respect matches and tournaments wherein they discover themselves. Each officers have been enhancing brilliantly up to now years and we commend them for his or her robust dedication to maintain enhancing themselves, self-motivating, and performing diligently at a excessive stage,” NFF Normal Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi mentioned on Tuesday.

In her quarter-final expertise, Calvin-Onwuka was yoked with Salima Mukansanga – the Rwandan official who’s extensively considered the main lady referee on the African continent. The 33-year-old officiated on the 2019 FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals and is one in all three ladies referees globally who’ve been shortlisted for the FIFA World Cup finals in Qatar later this yr. She has additionally officiated on the Olympics and on the CAF Girls’s Champions League.

Earlier this yr in Cameroon, Mukansanga turned the primary lady to referee an Africa Cup of Nations match.

Mimisen Calvin-Onwuka is among the referees shortlisted to carry out on the FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup finals in Costa Rica, slated for tenth – twenty eighth August.

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