Their resilience, character, doggedness, commitment, fighting spirit and management of the game have continued to elicit commendations from across the continent of Africa and beyond.
As we commend the girls for making the country proud under very difficult circumstances, we will not fail to point out that age is beginning to tell on some of the stars in the team. We consider it appropriate for their handlers to infuse new blood into the team that has continued to dominate female football in the continent.
It is heartwarming that even with the pain of losing in Morocco, a member of the team, Asisat Oshoala, was voted, for the fifth time, as the best female footballer in Africa at the Confederation of African Football awards. It is, indeed, a testimony to the enviable standard of female football in the country. Oshoala herself said this much at the awards ceremony recently.
It took the Intervention of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for the girls to be paid. But the NFF reacted by sacking then team coach, Florence Omagbemi, who they accused of instigating the girls to embark on the strike.Also, at the France 2019 World Cup, the girls refused to leave their rooms following the NFF’s failure to settle their allowances. The Federation, again, reacted by stripping Desire Oparanozie of the captaincy of the team, claiming she led the protest against the body.
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