WAFCON 2022: CAF Appoints Madu, Iyorhe, Others As Referees

Two Nigerian referees; Endurance Madu and Mimisen Iyorhe Calvin-Onwuka have been named by the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF) to officiate in subsequent month’s Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON).
An inventory of 40 match officers together with 16 centre referees, 16 assistant referees and eight Video Assistant Referees (VAR) has been solely made out there to nigeriasoccernet.com

On the record are Madu who was the fourth official on the Tokyo Olympics final 12 months in addition to Iyorhe Calvin-Onwuka who is among the assistant referees on FIFA Girls’s World Cup record.

Madu and Calvin-Onwuka had been additionally among the many thirty-two (32) match officers that officiated on the final version of the WAFCON, held in Ghana in 2018 and can now officiate within the competitors billed to begin in Rabat, Morocco on July 2, 2022.

Each referees officiate within the high flight of Nigeria’s males’s league – Nigeria Skilled Soccer League (NPFL) and likewise officiated on the inaugural CAF Girls’s Champions League held in Cairo, Egypt final 12 months.

The duo is not going to be the one Nigerian flagbearers on the match with the ladies’s nationwide crew, Tremendous Falcons pitched in Group C alongside South Africa, Burundi and Botswana as they bid to defend the title they gained in Accra in 2018.

The 14th version of the Girls’s AFCON will even function qualifiers for subsequent 12 months’s FIFA Girls’s World Cup to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand ranging from July 20.