Nigeria’s feminine nationwide staff, Tremendous Falcons are sure to gather in two batches the rewards that had been promised them for successful a tenth Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title, Sports247 gathered.
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Though agitations virtually reached boiling level final 12 months over the unsettled rewards, the Falcons seem set for an extended wait for his or her cash, however they may get homes and nationwide honours subsequent month.
This follows assurances offered by Nationwide Sports activities Fee (NSC) chairman, Mallam Shehu Dikko, who gave particulars of how homes, nationwide awards and cash promised the squad by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will probably be handed over to the gamers, coaches and workers.
In accordance with Dikko, the squad will obtain the primary batch of rewards after they open camp for a pre-WAFCON build-up competitors, which is scheduled to start out in Ivory Coast on February twenty seventh, whereas the second log will probably be ‘earlier than’ the Nations Cup begins.
Whereas the association is sure to trigger heated reactions among the many Falcons’ gamers, coaches and backroom workers, Dikko emphasised that the whole lot is being accomplished to make sure that all of the rewards are duly handed out to those that deserve them.
Dikko affirmed, “The ladies by no means allow us to down, and so they at all times watch our again in Nigeria. So, we should do what we now have to do for them.
“We’re arranging their homes and nationwide honours. Every part is already accessible and will probably be handed over to them after they resume camp.”
The NSC’s high official then served a touch that the financial awards of $100,000 for every of the gamers in addition to $50,000 for the coaches and workers are nonetheless work in progress, as he identified that its disbursement course of has to maneuver via the Federal Ministry of Finance.
“We’ve additionally been working intently with the Ministry of Finance and all people in cost to ensure all that we’re alleged to do for them will probably be accessible earlier than the WAFCON.
“Positively, we now have to do this as a lot as attainable to assist their preparations,” mentioned Dikko, who stopped in need of giving actual dates for every of the batches to be settled by the authorities.
Sports247, nonetheless, notes that the Falcons will play towards Senegal, Ghana and hosts Cote d’Ivoire from February 27 to March 7 throughout a build-up competitors for WAFCON 2026, which can run from March seventeenth to April third in Morocco.
All 4 semi-finalists from the continental competitors will qualify to play on the subsequent FIFA Girls’s World Cup, which can happen from June 24 to July 25, 2027 in Brazil.
