Tony Ubani
2 December 2008
Pillar of female football, Princess Bola Ngozi Jegede, is yet to come to terms with the misfortune that has hit the Nigerian female national teams. The Super Falcons started the fumbling story when they tumbled from their Olympian height in African Women Championship and ended up in the third positon in a tourney they had won five times since inception.
"We need a surgical operation in the technical crew of all female teams if we are to bounce back to reckoning", Proprietress of once formidable Jegede Babes FC said on Brila FM. Jegede, passionate about female team, did not mince words when she said that the problem with the teams was not the players but on ignorance of their handlers. "From their play, it showed that they needed technical guidance, but they lacked it as those in charge have all gone stale", she fired.
Coach of Falcons, Jossy Lad, avoided the axe of the NFA when he led Falcons to a disgraceful outing at the Beijing Olympics. But when other Coaches were being sacked, his job was saved because of his connections. As one journalist put it; "his job was saved so that Nigeria can be disgraced". Even on his sick bed, Bassey Koma, who followed female football from inception cried at the disgraceful play of the Falcons.
He called for changes of the coaches if Nigerian female football must rise again. Only yesterday, Bassey Koma died with his dreams. And out there in Chile at the U-20 World Cup, the Falconets also lost to France in the quarter-final. "We must be transparent in all that we do. We should not allow other African countries take over the leadership of female football. We should be contesting with the world powers in female football and not be making motion without movement", Jegede said.
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