Nigerian Soccer Federation President Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau praised Bayelsa Queens FC gamers and officers for his or her spectacular 2-0 victory over TP Mazembe girls within the League group stage match of CAF Girls’s Champions in Marrakesh on Thursday, and criticized the Nigerian representatives for sustaining confidence of their capability to win the trophy.

Talking by delegation chief Alhaji Babagana Kalli, the NFF advised the Nigerian Girls’s Soccer League champions to maintain their eyes on the ball and take it one recreation at a time as they search to qualify for the section first. play off.

“I’m impressed with the best way you lifted your spirits and bounced again out of your loss to defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa to beat TP Mazembe. You may have proven the true Nigerian spirit and the NFF and all Nigerians are comfortable about this.

“The NFF, Bayelsa State Authorities and all soccer loving Nigerians will proceed to assist and pray for you as you progress by the match. Solely on Sunday will we have fun the Flamingos’ historic feat of profitable the bronze medal on the FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup in India. It’s my perception that Nigerians will quickly have fun one other historic second in girls’s soccer by Bayelsa Queens,” Gusau advised the gamers and referees by Alhaji Babagana Kalli, NFF Board Member and NFF Match Commissioner. FIFA and CAF.

Gusau additionally assured the staff that if he reaches the ultimate of the competitors, he will likely be in Morocco to cheer on the staff along with the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, His Excellency Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.

After a slim 1-2 loss to the Cup winners of their opening recreation, Queens took a 2-0 lead after 24 minutes in opposition to the Congolese facet within the Moroccan metropolis of Marrakech on Thursday – and that is the way it ended. .

Mamelodi Sundowns’ 5-0 whiplash of Egypt’s Wadi Degla on Thursday, within the different group recreation, means the Cup winners have a most six factors from their two video games, whereas Bayelsa Queens are second on three factors, by forward of TP Mazembe who even have three factors however are one objective behind.

The Nigerian champions will tackle group whippers Wadi Degla on Sunday evening and can attain the knockout stage with a slim win. TP Mazembe will strive their luck in opposition to Cup winners and group leaders Mamelodi Sundowns.

Moroccan champions ASFAR, together with Atlas Queens star participant Fatima Tagnaout, have certified for the semi-finals after two wins, defeating Tanzania’s Simba Queens and Zambia’s Inexperienced Buffaloes. Decide Women of Liberia, the opposite staff within the group, has misplaced each video games in opposition to Simba Queens and Inexperienced Buffaloes, and is already eradicated.

The Morocco match is simply the second version of the CAF Girls Champions League, with the primary held in Egypt final 12 months, the place the Rivers Angels represented Nigeria.