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| Falconents head coach Dedevbo |
Despite fresh reports of the outbreak of Ebola
Virus disease in Liberia, the contingent
of eighteen players and nine officials of the Nigeria U-20 Women’s soccer Team, “Falconets”,
will fly to Monronvia,the capital city Wednesday
for the Papua New Guinea 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup second round, first leg qualifying
match against their Liberian counterparts, taking place this weekend.
The team will fly through Accra and Abidjan,
before setting out to Monrovia, to arrive there on Friday.
General secretary of the Nigeria Football
Federation,Dr.Sanusi Mohammed said the Federation has written the Liberia FA
and copied the Confederation of African
Football on the matter.
"We are aware of reports of the epidemic virus ,we are in touch with the Nigeria and Liberian authorities on this health issue.We have also written the Confederation of African Football and copied the Liberian FA" Sanusi said.
The Africa Football ruling body -CAF has opted not to move the match to a neutral
venue. Last weekend, Liberia’s senior national team, Lone Star, hosted Guinea
in a 2016 African Nations Championship qualifier, which ended 1-1.
On Monday, having received no information from
the Liberia Football Association or CAF on the exact date, time and venue of
the match, the NFF wrote to the LFA asking for those details.
The LFA has now replied stating that the match
will take place on Sunday, at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium, starting at 4pm.
CAF has appointed Aissatou Inter Keita of the
Republic of Guinea as referee for the match.
She will be assisted by compatriots Fantagbe
Kaba, Manty Keita and Isatou Touray as assistant referee1, assistant referee 2
and reserve referee respectively. The match commissioner is Fatou Camara from
Mali.
The winner of the fixture will proceed to the
third round of qualifiers, to play the winner of the Namibia/DR Congo fixture.
Peter Debevbo is in charge of the team
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