Sacked workers of the now defunct Edo State Sports Council on Friday prevented the national under-20 female football team, Falconets, from training at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin city.
The Falconets will take on their Senegalese counterparts in an U-20 Women World Cup qualifiers on Saturday in Benin.
Christopher Danjuma, Coach of the Nigerian team, had told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the team would have their training at the stadium on Friday morning.
The aggrieved workers, who barricaded roads leading to the Stadium as well as the stadium gate, were protesting their sack by the Edo State Government on Wednesday.
The disengaged workers had laid siege at the stadium since Wednesday when the news of their sack was officially announced to them.
The Falconets, who arrived in Benin City on Wednesday, had their first training at Best Western Secondary School in Benin City on Thursday.
A source, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that officials of the state government and representatives of the sacked workers were in a meeting to address the matter.
Meanwhile, the Senegalese under-20 female football team arrived at Benin Airport on Friday morning for the second leg match of the qualifiers.
The team, which lost to the Falconets 3-1 in Senegal, landed at the airport at 8am via an Air Peace flight from Abuja.
The Senegalese contingent was received at the airport by the Permanent Secretary, Edo State Sports Commission, Sabina Chikere.
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