NWFL: FALODE EXTOLS THE VIRTUES OF LATE UKAIGWE

The Chairperson of the Nigeria Ladies Soccer League, Aisha Falode, has led tributes for late board member of the NWFL and president of the Feminine Soccer Curiosity Group, Henrietta Ukaigwe as ladies’s soccer stakeholders throughout the nation marks her two-year remembrance right this moment.

Falode, who served on the identical board with Ukaigwe earlier than her dying on 14th July 2020, stated ladies’s soccer misplaced an incredible gem.

“She spent most elements of her life on the event of ladies’s soccer in Nigeria each on the league and nationwide groups ranges,” Falode stated. “She contributed in no small measure to maneuver ladies’s soccer to the following stage.

“ There isn’t a doubt that, the large developmental works and large dedication to make sure, the sport is accepted in all nooks and crannies of Nigeria, contributed In no measure to get the ladies’s league to the place it’s right this moment.

Henrietta, left us on the time Nigerian Ladies’s Soccer wanted her a lot.

“Although, she isn’t any extra right this moment, her nice works are nonetheless tips to the revolution witnessed within the ladies’s league over time.

She fought for the overall acceptance of ladies’s soccer, gamers’ welfare and equal remedy with the boys’s of us. She was towards the preferential remedy given to the boys’s footballers in comparison with the ladies’s.

It was nevertheless an incredible delight for her to see in her lifetime, the equal bonuses and allowances the Nigeria Soccer Federation paid to the Tremendous Falcons gamers on the Ghana 2018 Ladies African Cup of Nations. “

Falode, who’s the Chief of Delegation of the Tremendous Falcons group to the Ladies’s African Cup of Nations, careworn that, Ukaigwe is sorely missed as Nigeria targets a file extending tenth title in Morocco.

She stated: “She’s going to eternally stay in her hearts. If she was not gone, she would have been in Morocco with us supporting the Tremendous Falcons.

“Henrietta witnessed all of the 9 Nations Cup titles received be the Tremendous Falcons. And this version is the primary WAFCON match she isn’t witnessing and that’s the reason we’re unhappy that she isn’t with us right here in Morocco to see the Falcons win once more.

“She additionally watched the Tremendous Falcons in all editions of FIFA Ladies’s World Cup since 1995 in Sweden. “She was an embodiment of ladies’s soccer not solely in Africa, but additionally on the worldwide stage. She served as a long run Media Officer of the Tremendous Falcons, earlier than graduating to function a Common Co-ordinator of the nationwide ladies’s senior soccer group.

“Very quickly, we will be instituting a benefit award and soccer match in her reminiscence,” Falode added,