Nigeria’s female national under-17 team, otherwise known as the Flamingoes, are due to jet out of the country for a training tour of Portugal to intensify their preparations for the FIFA cadets World Cup slated for Costa Rica.
A 34-man delegation of the Nigeria cadet women team, made up 25 players and nine officials are expected to leave the country for a training tour of Faro, Portugal on Friday.
Meanwhile, the team defeated Nasarawa Amazons, the country’s women league champions, Nasarawa United, in a friendly match by two goals to nil in Abuja.
Goals from Uche Kanu and Onyebuchi Goodness in separate halves handed the
Faro-bound girls the victory in the tie played at the FIFA Goal Project Centre on Wednesday.
The Coach Bala Nkiyu-led wards through Uche Kanu grabbed the lead in the seventh minute and later saw several attempts on goal off target in the first half, with Aminat and Chiwnedu both recording a miss.
However, Nasarawa Amazons failed to find a breakthrough for an equalizer as the resilient Nigerian flamingoes sealed up its defence line.
Unfortunately, the Hamza Abdullahi-led women lost hope when Onyebuchi Goodness fired home to make it 2-0 for the Flamingoes.
Interestingly, the 2-0 victory over the Amazons became the second victory for the Flamingoes after an earlier 2-1 victory in Lafia during their Federation tour.
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