Nigeria’s U-17 girls’s nationwide workforce goalkeeper, Elizabeth Boniface, has expressed optimism concerning the Flamingos’ probabilities forward of the FIFA U-17 Ladies’s World Cup scheduled to happen in Morocco later this month.
Talking earlier than the workforce’s departure for North Africa, Boniface mentioned the gamers have labored tirelessly in camp beneath head coach Bankole Olowookere, including that the workforce’s spirit, unity, and focus have reached an all-time excessive.
She famous that the Flamingos have realized from their previous campaigns and are able to surpass their earlier finest end — a quarterfinal look in India 2022.
“We’ve educated very laborious for this second,” Boniface mentioned with confidence. “The coaches have pushed us to enhance in each side — our defending, our communication, and our composure beneath stress. We imagine that is our time to make historical past for Nigeria.”
Boniface, who has been excellent throughout preparations, revealed that the workforce has benefited from intensive tactical classes and pleasant matches organized by the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF). She additionally praised the Federation for guaranteeing correct welfare and logistics all through the buildup.
“The NFF has been very supportive, and we actually recognize that,” she added. “They’ve made positive we focus solely on soccer. Now it’s as much as us to ship and make the nation proud.”
The younger goalkeeper additional highlighted the workforce’s willpower to symbolize Nigerian girls’s soccer with pleasure and style, saying religion and self-discipline will probably be their greatest weapons in Morocco.
“With God on our aspect, we’ll go far,” Boniface mentioned. “Our aim is to play as one household, give our all in each sport, and convey glory residence.”
The Flamingos are set to open their marketing campaign in opposition to Canada on October 19, as they goal to write down a brand new chapter in Nigeria’s wealthy girls’s soccer historical past.
