Super Falcons has emerged the Women’s National Team of the Year
at the 2018 AITEO-CAF African Football Awards held on Goree Island, near Dakar
on Tuesday night.
It was the
fourth time the Super Falcons would pick up the diadem, following earlier wins
in 2010, 2014 and 2016. Last month in Ghana, Nigeria’s Women National Team won
the Women Africa Cup of Nations for the third successive time and ninth time
overall.
For the second
year running, the bog occasion for rewarding performers in the game on the African
continent was bankrolled by Nigeria’s leading energy solution company, AITEO –
also the Official Optimum Partner of the Nigeria Football Federation.
Two Heads of
Government, in President Macky Sall of Senegal and President George Weah of
Liberia, turned up, joined by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, CAF President
Ahmad, FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura (a Senegalese), CAF 1st
Vice President/NFF President Amaju Pinnick, CAF 2nd Vice President
Constant Omari and CAF 3rd Vice President Fouzi Lekjaa.
There was also
the full complement of the membership of CAF Executive Committee, legends of
the game from across the African continent, members of the diplomatic corps and
world renowned artistes who put up magnificent performances.
Pinnick picked
up the Super Falcons’ award, presented by four –time winner of the Woman Player
of the Year, Perpetua Nkwocha. Nigeria legends Emmanuel Amuneke (winner of the Player
of the Year in 1994), Nwankwo Kanu (winner in 1996 and 1999), Victor Ikpeba
(winner in 1997) and the daughter of late Rashidi Yekini (winner in 1993)
joined the Legends XI parade that also included President Weah (the 1995 World,
European and African Player of the Year), Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), El Hadj
Diouf (Senegal), Frederick Kanoute (Mali), Didier Drogba (Cote d’Ivoire),
Samuel Eto’o Fils (Cameroon) and Mohamed Salah (Egypt).
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