By Tony Ubani, Jacob Ajom and Solomon Nwoke
Nigeria has suffered another embarrassing setback in football following Super Falcons’ narrow 1-0 defeat to the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon. Like the Super Eagles, the Super Falcons will now chart the course of an African World Cup playoff to determine their fate of playing in the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil as CAF’s tournament schedule gives the losing quarter-finalists another route, with two classification play-off matches scheduled for Thursday, August 13, in Casablanca.
It will be unimaginable if, for the first time since the beginning of FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1991, the country’s green-white-green flag fails to flutter among those of best women football playing nations in Brazil next year when the 2027 edition kicks off.
Regrettably, the Super Falcons’ 1-0 defeat is a true reflection of how ill-prepared the team was for the continental tournament, which the NFF knew would also serve as World Cup qualifiers.
The fall of the Super Falcons shows how low Nigerian football has declined under the present leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation headed by Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau. In other climes, heads would have rolled. But not in Nigeria.
