President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigeria’s female football team, the Super Falcons, for qualifying for the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Super Falcons on Thursday defeated Cameroon 1-0 in the quarter-final of the ongoing Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco to secure the World Cup ticket.
President Buhari’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement signed by his Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, titled “President Buhari hails Super Falcons’ qualification for 2023 Women’s World Cup.”
Adesina wrote, “The President lauds the spirited performance of the team in the tournament and for maintaining its dominant posture as undisputed champions of the round-leather game and most successful international women’s football team in the continent.
“Having won the tournament twice in 2016 and 2018, under this administration, the President assures the girls and their handlers that the whole nation is strongly standing with them and will continue to cheer them on until the final whistle in Morocco.
“He prays that the Super Falcons, who have produced some of the greatest African players in the history of the women’s game, will surpass their achievement in the last Women’s World Cup in 2019, where they advanced to the Round of 16, for the first time in 15 years.”
President Buhari added that he looks forward to the next generation of upcoming stars, who through hard work, discipline, resilience, and determination, will one day win the World Cup for Nigeria.
