Izuchukwu Okosi
The Mauritius Football Association has notified the Confederation of African Football of the withdrawal of the country’s U-20 Women national team from the ongoing African qualifying series for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals.
The Mauritius side were billed to face their Nigerian rivals but the latter have now progressed go the third round of qualifiers to the tournament scheduled to hold in Colombia.
Join our WhatsApp Channel“Kindly note that CAF was informed of the withdrawal of Mauritius FA from the African qualifiers of FIFA U20 WWC 2024.
“Consequently, Nigeria is qualified to the next round of the competition and the missions of all officials of matches 37 & 38 are cancelled,” read a communication from CAF to the Nigeria Football Federation.
The Falconets were to fly to Mauritius next week for the first leg in Saint Pierre against the Mauritius U-20 girls, with the return leg scheduled for the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Saturday, 14th October.
With this situation, 2022 World Cup quarter-finalists Nigeria now progress to the next round of the qualification series.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
