Super Falcons’ goalie’s rating as world’s seventh best thrills Izilien | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Former Coach of Super Falcons, Godwin Izilien, has described Chiamaka Nnadozie’s ranking as the world’s seventh best woman goalkeeper as a clear indication that Nigeria has abundant talented female footballers at the grassroots waiting to be discovered.

Izilien, who commended the Paris of France FC goaltender for putting Nigeria on the world map in women football, urged stakeholders in the ladies’ game to pay more attention to talent discovery, stressing that discovering and nurturing women players when they are still young will raise the country’s standard in the game.

“She played for the cadet teams and Nigerian clubs before moving abroad. I have said it before that Nigeria has talents in women football… all they need is to be discovered and exposed. “Getting young talents from the grassroots remains the direction to develop women’s football in Nigeria,” he said. The rankings of the women goalkeepers were for an aggregate of 2021 taking into consideration performances for their club and country.

 

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