Dominican Republic 2024: Flamingos ready to grab world cup ticket

Dominican Republic 2024: Flamingos ready to grab World Cup ticket

Flamingos

By Georgina Adegbie

Abuja, June 13, 2024 (NAN) Nigeria`s Under 17 Female Football Team, the Flamingos are set to grab their FIFA World Cup ticket in the Dominican Republic in October, as they take on Liberia on Friday in Abuja.

Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Flamingos defeated their Liberian counterparts 4-1 in their first leg match in Monrovia.

They will meet Liberia in the second leg match on Friday at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium.

NAN reports that goals by Harmony Chidi, Peace Effiong, Shakirat Moshood and substitute Blessing Ifitezue earned Nigeria a striking first leg win in Monrovia on Sunday.

“Chidi has been a celebrated talent of this qualifying campaign globally, scoring 11 goals in five matches and will probably add more goals in the return leg.

“The attacking strength of the Nigerian girls has been extraordinary, with a 12-0 aggregate win (6-0 in each leg) against Central African Republic in the second round,.

“They had 7-1 aggregate against Burkina Faso (1-1 and 6-0) in the third round, and a 4-1 routing of their hosts in Monrovia in the final round, first leg encounter,“he said.

NAN reports that Nigeria missed only one edition of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals till date, the 2018 edition in Uruguay  which Cameroon  edged the Flamingos on the away-goal rule in the final round.

The Saturday match scheduled to commence at 4pm, has Egyptian official Shahenda El-Maghrabi as referee with her compatriots May Ali Hassan.

Gamalat Ahmed Shebl and Noura Samir El-Sayed will be assistant referee 1, assistant referee 2 and fourth official.

Christine Ziga from Ghana will be the commissioner while Tesfanesh Woreta Hailu from Ethiopia will serve as referee assessor.

This year’s FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup finals will be staged in the cities of Santiago de los Caballeros, and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic from Oct. 16 to Nov 3. (NAN) (www. nannews.ng)

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Edited by Joseph Edeh