Goals by Mercy Idoko in the 38th minute, Flourish Sebastine (47th minute), Esther Onyenezide (50th minute, from the penalty spot) and Deborah Ajibola (55th minute) condemned Congo, conquerors of Egypt, to countenancing a near-hopeless situation in the return leg.
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Member of the NFF Executive Committee and FIFA Match Commissioner, Alhaji Babagana Kalli, led the contingent.
The Falconets flew into Lagos on Monday from Abuja ahead of the return leg, and on arrival had a little rest before heading straight to business as Coach Christopher Danjuma and his assistants drilled the girls in a two- hour intense training session at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere.
The Falconets made things abundantly clear from the second minute of the match played at one of the stadia designated for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations – Stade Japoma de Douala – when Mercy Idoko finished brilliantly to put Nigeria ahead.
Africa’s football-governing body, CAF has not approved any stadia facility in Central African Republic as being good enough to host an international match – this has forced the country’s national teams to adopt other nations as ‘home ground’. The country’s Men ‘A’ team played Cape Verde in Douala on Day 1 of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 series, which ended 1-1.
Two-time World Cup runners-up Nigeria have participated in every edition of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup since it was launched as an U19 tournament in Canada 18 years ago
The keenly-contested game between two teams that had battled to a 1-1 draw in a group phase match eight days earlier, ended 0-0 after regulation and extra time at the Stade Boubker Aamar outside Rabat.
Nigeria are through to the final of the 2019 All Africa Games after Aku’s first half double set Nigeria on the path to victory over foes Algeria.
Paul Aigbogun’s wards were forced to a 1-1 draw by their counterparts from Burkina Faso in their opening match of the men’s football event on Friday, while Chris Danjuma’s Falconets took no prisoners, hammering South Africa’s Basetsana 3-0 in their first match on Saturday
They will battle Cameroon, South Africa and Zambia in Group B of the tournament.
Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, said in a statement on Friday that the players list has Chiamaka Nnadozie and Chidinma Okeke.
Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, said in a statement that the group also has Equatorial Guinea, Mali and Algeria.
Mansur told the News Agency of Nigeria that inadequate preparations would always result in failure.
Flying Eagles’ head coach, Chris Danjuma, has described as utter falsehood and a cluster of esoteric jargons, a story in one online publication on Wednesday that an official of his team claimed players and officials were not paid their entitlements before and during the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals in France.
Ajibade, while expressing her disappointment over the team’s quarter-finals exit after a 1-2 loss, said the national under-20 women football team’s was a bitter pill for her to swallow.
Nneka Ikem-Anibeze, Dalung’s Special Assistant on Media, in a statement said the minister disclosed this when he called the team’s camp in France ahead of Thursday’s quarter-final match against Spain.
Agu-Ejidike, in a statement in Lagos said while he had never doubted the team’s ability, he would only appeal to the players to strive to do the country proud.
Nigeria’s U20 girls tackle their counterparts from Spain on Thursday for a place in the semi finals of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals, with sweet memories of how the Falconets edged the Spaniards in a group phase game in Papua New Guinea two years ago.
Abdullahi Mansur, Assistant coach of the Falconets on Wednesday, assured Nigerians that the team would overcome Spain in their Thursday’s World Cup quarter finals match.
The Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, has described Nigeria’s Falconets’ last minute draw against China as superlative.