Female Football department insist on league

Clubs have complained bitterly about the situation in which their best players are holed up in the various national teams depleting their squads for league games, but NFA Board member and Chairman of the Female Football Development Committee, Ayo Omidiran insists the league will go on.

“The Clubs should have patience with us and understand that we have a tight calendar this year and anything we do will surely affect our own program for the year.”

Worst hit are Pelican Stars of Calabar who have 7 of their players in the German camp of the Falcons team and 3 others with the U-19 side.

Only 3 days ago, three other Pelican Stars players were named in the Falcons Team B squad to face Senegal next month, a situation that has not gone down well with officials of the Calabar based club.

“So how do they want us to play the league without 14 of our best players?” an enraged team manager of the club, Ani Oku-Ita.

“Our number one goalkeeper, Oge Onyinanya is in Germany and the other two are in the U-19 team so who will be in goal when we play in the league?”

to this, Ayo Omidiran says the best the FA can do is postpone games involving top clubs like Pelican Stars, Delta Queens and FCT Queens who have more than five players in the National Teams while the others have to go on with the league.

“You can see we are in a catch twenty two situation and all I can do for now is ask these clubs to bear with us. They should take this period as one of sacrificing to the nation.”