Football
Players of the Senior Women National
Team, Super Falcons and the U20 girls, Falconets will turn students on Tuesday
for a few hours when the second edition of the FIFA Female Leadership
Development Programme (Accelerator project) is organized by the Nigeria
Football Federation at the Agura Hotel, Abuja.
Apart from the Super Falcons and the
Falconets, players of Nigeria Women Football League side, Nasarawa Amazons are
expected at the venue of the seminar titled ‘Education for Character Moulding
and Career Enhancement among Female Football Players in Nigeria,’
Coordinator of the Programme, Miss Ruth
David, who is also Head of NFF Women Football Unit, confirmed to thenff.com
that school –girls who are passionate about the game of football, within the
Federal Capital Territory, will also join the sessions.
While the Falconets are preparing for
the 8th FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup in Papua New Guinea, taking place 13th
November – 3rd December, the Super Falcons are gearing up for the defence of
their Women Africa Cup of Nations title in Cameroon, 19th November – 3rd
December.
NFF President Amaju Pinnick is expected
to declare the seminar open, with 2nd Vice President/LMC Chairman Shehu Dikko
to chair the motivational talks to be delivered by four eminent resource
persons.
The resource persons are Hon. Ayo Omidiran,
a leading women football investor and former NFF Board Member who is presently
Member of the Sports Committee of the House of Representatives; Mrs Hauwa
Kulu-Akinyemi, Director of the Federations and Elite Athletes Department of the
Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports; Ms Aisha Falode, noted women’s football
promoter, CAF Match Commissioner and Member, CAF Media Committee and; Ms
Henrietta Ukaigwe, leading journalist and women’s football promoter.
Omidiran will speak on ‘Education and
Self Confidence among Female Football Players in Nigeria’ while Kulu-Akinyemi
will dwell on ‘Job Opportunities Open to Educated Sports Women’ and Falode will
talk on the possibility of combining football with formal education. Ukaigwe, a
former Coordinator of the U17 Women National Team and the Super Falcons, will
speak on her experience as a team official.
David is one of 35 women football
administrators across the globe taking part in the ongoing FIFA Female
Leadership Development Programme.
The first seminar, which held at the
same venue in August, had in attendance players of the U17 Women National Team
(Flamingoes) as well as players from Clubs in the Nigeria Women Football
League.
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