Nigeria WAFCON-WINLING SIDE Return Home as heroes: “We haven’t seen it with a male team”
Nigerian women’s national football representative in the capital of the audience with the President, a fresh victory for the weekend Africa in Morocco via Morocco.
The Super Falconswinners Saturday Female African Cup Nation FinaleThey welcomed themselves at the Karmak at Abuje International Airport by traditional dancers, drummer and roya journalists and government officials.
Then they went to the convoy of security escort to meet with President Bol Tinbus.
The women brought themselves their 10. WAFCON trophy, the highlight of the year of domination at the continental level despite the fighting at home through late payments and paid various teams.
To catch gold, Super Falcons set a stunning return from a seemingly fatal deficit 2-0, winning 3-2 over their WAFCON hosts in rebate.
Before the match, it was announced that Tinbubu has personally approved the payment of the player’s tournament bonus. The apparently routine measure in the past was anything, but with super-hawloses that withdraw heads with Nigeria football federation across unpaid bonuses after their starting of the female customers in 2023. Years.
The fans also called on the team that will pay off the same as the male team, Super Eagles.
In the presidential villa Tinbu, he announced that the players would be given a three bedroom apartment, as well as a $ 100,000 cash bonus.
“We couldn’t be proud of”, “ The president said, adding that he “did not want to watch the game” at one point for stress.
Problems ‘drown’ with victory
Despite the challenges, the team appeared in every female World Cup, because the tournament was debuting in 1991. years.
“Nigeria is the best country, with the best female state football”, “ Paul Edeh said, Chair of the Benue State Football Association, who was at the airport to greet the team on Monday.
“What did these girls manage to achieve … the type of trophy they brought to us, we didn’t see that with the male team” He told AFP.
While the party’s parties broke out in the cheering across the country on Saturday night, the total reaction in the country of about 220 million is relatively dim.
Most of the piles welcome players as they touched were airport workers, government officials and journalists.
Although the Government promised “Abuje Streets” would “be agog” during the city’s parlades, in the end the plans are parried.
For many fans, the team, the team got its regular roses with Saturday trophy, which also served as a temporary relief from many crises of the earth, from the jihadist rebellion to spiral inflation.
Muhammad Awwal, a taxi driver in Cannes, he said for AFP during the weekend that women helped Nigerians “for a moment forget our common problems.”
“All our problems are drowned in the misery of the spectacular victory celebration” He said.