Less than 24-hours after an emergency committee of FIFA placed a suspension on Nigeria due to an alleged government interference in the administration of Nigerian football, the country’s Under-20 women side, the Falconets, may have become the first victims of the ban.
According to latest reports, the world football governing body has stopped the Falconets on their proposed 24-day camping tour of Canada ahead of the upcoming 2014 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup holding in Canada in August.
It was gathered that the nation’s campaigners were scheduled to depart the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday aboard Lufthansa Airline to Frankfurt enroute Moncton, Canada but that was not to be as the team returned to their camp on flimsy flight hitch.
However, the team returned to the airport on Tuesday to embark on the tour but were told in no uncertain term that their tickets have been cancelled on the order of FIFA.
As at Wednesday’s night, it was gathered that the Nigerian team are still in their hotel in Abuja with strict instruction from the new helmsmen at the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for them to train within the hotel premise until otherwise directed.
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