Coach Bala Nikyu and team administrator, Mary Oboduku have
arrived in Amman, Jordan for today’s draw ceremony for this year’s FIFA U-17
Women’s World Cup. The duo left Nigeria Saturday. Coach Bala Nikyu
The draw ceremony will hold at the King
Hussein Cultural Centre, Amman, and will segment the 16 qualified nations into
four groups of four teams each......
Already, the pots have been determined, in line
with the ranking of the teams in the past four editions of the competition that
was launched in New Zealand in 2008. Five extra points are allotted to
continental champions, with Nigeria one of the beneficiaries. Nigeria has reached
the quarter –finals in the last three editions of the competition (Trinidad and
Tobago 2010, Azerbaijan 2012 and Costa Rica 2014), and qualified for this
year’s finals after hammering Namibia and South Africa home and away. Jordan
hosted the Arab Games in 1999 but the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup is the
country’s first major international tournament. Matches will take place in the
capital, Amman as well as Irbid and Zarqa. The 5th FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup
finals will hold 30th September – 21st October this year.
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