30 Invited for U-20 Women National Team

 

The Nigeria Football Federation has invited 30 players to the camp of the under 20 women national team, also known as Falconets, in preparation for the African qualifying series for this year’s FIFA U-20 world cup finals.

The falconets will be playing a world cup qualifying game away to Sierra Leone mid-February, with the return leg scheduled for Nigeria two weeks later.

The invited players are to report at the FIFA Technical Centre, National Stadium, Abuja today with their birth certificates.

Since the FIFA U-20 women’s world cup was launched in Canada in 2002, Nigeria has qualified to represent Africa in every edition, making it to the quarter finals in Thailand in 2004, Russia in 2006 and Chile in 2008.

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Costa Concordia Crew Members Return Home

The crew members of the italian cruise ship that capsized in Italy;the Costa Concordia are back at their home country of Philippines.
Nearly 300 Filipinos were on board the ill-fated ship, and around a third of them arrived in Manila on Thursday. The rest were set to return later in the week.

Cabin stewardess Gilda Gido took home a souvenir from the ship.
A cabin stewardess who was interviewed said the life vest she wore saved her life that she was putting on when the announcement that the ship has to be abandoned and she will be keeping it as a souvenir.

These overseas workers left home in search of good fortune. But the misfortune they met in the high seas is giving them second thoughts about their chosen profession.

The Costa Concordia tipped over when it struck a rock off the Tuscan coast last weekend. Eleven people were killed and 22 remain missing.

Some of the Filipino crew members came away from the experience with important lessons.

The agency hiring the wokers said the crew members will be given new assignments once their documents are sorted.
Around 40 percent of sailors and maritime workers around the world are from the Philippines.

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NFF approved Keshi’s trip – Maigari

 

Nigeria Football Federation president, Aminu Maigari, has said that the federation gave approval to the Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi and his assistant Daniel Amokachi to leave their duty post for a contract with a satellite television station covering the 2012 African Cup of Nations.

The explanation of Maigari follows barrage of criticisms that greeted the moonlighting of the national coaches.

The Eagles are billed to face the Rwandans in Kigali on February 29 and followers of the national team have spoken heavily against their trip to South Africa which was scheduled to run until the end of the competition on February 12.

Their deal was repackaged to end of February 5 instead following the public scrutiny that greeted the planned trip.

And in reacting to the controversy generated, Maigari said the issues were magnified beyond what was actually on ground.

He said, “The technical committee chairman (Chris Green) and his team were actually on top of the matter and were briefing all members of the board as and when necessary, so there was no issue concerning the trip by Keshi and his assistant to South Africa.”

Keshi left the country on Thursday for South Africa.

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