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Odegbami slams monetary gifts showered on Flamingos
The Nigerian U-17 ladies completed third on the FIFA Ladies World Cup in India and have been showered with financial presents from completely different sectors and by people.
The Flamingos have been promised money presents for his or her achievement as the primary Nigerian U17 Ladies’s staff to succeed in decide a winner’s medal.
Nevertheless, Nigerian soccer icon, Segun Odegbami has hit out on the concept of rewarding age grade groups with cash when they are often supplied extra invaluable issues like scholarship and a clearer pathway to creating it professionally in Soccer.
Odegbami feels that the women are underneath aged and proper now cash shouldn’t be their precedence if really they’re underneath the age of 17.
The feedback of the Soccer Legend additionally means that correct documentation on the profiles of the gamers might imply age discrepancies within the Nigerian squad to the U17 Ladies’s World Cup in India.
Talking on NTA, Odegbami argued that soccer and Training needs to be the principle present the lady’s needs to be given.
“What’s extra vital to those women needs to be their schooling. At their age, they need to be at school after which play soccer as nicely.
“If actually they’re 17 year-olds, then cash shouldn’t be the precedence now.
“I want to see the federal government supply them scholarships,” Odegbami acknowledged.
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