Nigeria’s U-20 women’s football national team, the Super Falconets are currently stranded in Istanbul, Turkey 72 hours after their elimination from the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica reports Prime Business Africa.
The team won all their Group C games and were tipped by many football technocrats to reach the latter end of the tournament but exited the tournament in the early hours of Monday morning (WAT) as they lost 2-0 to Netherlands.
As the team left Costa Rica, former media officer of the Super Eagles, Colin Udoh revealed that there were no arrangement for sufficient accommodation for their 24-hour layover in Turkey.
This led to the ignominy of the players sleeping on the chairs and floors of the Istanbul Airport.
“Nigeria’s Falconets have been traveling from
Costa Rica since 6:30am on Monday,” top Nigerian Sports Journalist, Udoh tweeted in the early hours of Wednesday.
“They’re now in Istanbul on a 24-hour layover and sleeping on the airport chairs and floor, or wherever they can find,” he imformed.
Nigeria are two-time finalists at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in 2010 and 2014, losing on both occasions to Germany.
The Nigeria Football Federation recently submitted a 10-year plan to President Muhammadu Buhari.
However the Buhari administration ends in May 2023.
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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.
