Players of Nigeria’s Flamingos on Tuesday evening, 1 November, returned to Nigeria from India where they won bronze at the 2022 Women’s Under-17 FIFA World Cup.
Musa was impressed with the Flamingos’ performances at the World Cup most especially their third place match against Germany in which they won 3-2 on penalties.
The Nigerian girls were leading 3-0 before the 72nd minute, and they looked promising to win the match before Germany came back from behind to draw and forced the tie into penalties.
Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Nigeria’s U17 women’s football team, the Flamingos defeated Germany to win bronze at the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup in India.
Shortly after the victory, the team celebrated in a lobby of their hotel as they danced to the rave-of-the-moment song Cough by Kizz Daniel.