Nigeria: Flamingoes Book World Cup Ticket

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Nigeria’s Flamingoes yesterday at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta booked their place in the 2012 Fifa Under17 Women’s World Cup in Azerbaijan.

Nigeria’s ticket came off a well-rounded victory from the nation’s campaigners against their Zambian counterparts, Junior She-Polopolo whom they hit 5-0 in the final fixture of the global event.

The coach Peter Dedevbo tutored side completed the routing of the Southern Africans on 7-1 aggregate after first leg ended 2-1 in favour of the Nigerians in Lusaka.

The goal feast was served off by free scoring goal queen, Patience Okaeme followed by Halimatu Ayinde’s second which closed the first term.

On resumption of play, the rush for goals continued in a virtually one-sided game.

Chidinma Edeji up the goals to three and later grabbed the fourth through a well taken penalty after an on rushing Zambian player handled the ball in the penalty box.

Mabel Effiom Michael scored the fifth goal to round off the goal harvest.

Coach of the Nigerians, Peter Dedevbo expressed delight at his players’ performance while promising a greater outing at the World Cup.

“The scoreline is okay and that showed the better of both sides. We’re going to the World Cup to do Nigeria and Africa proud,” he said.

However, the She- Polopolo coach, Beauty Mwamba while she praised her players for a good game, she complained that the Nigerian players are women.

“I am proud of my girls, they’ve done their part, I’m not disappointed. We presented young girls unlike the Nigerian players who are clearly women,” she said.

Ghana joined Nigeria in the Azerbaijan’s party with one country left to complete Africa’s trio.

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