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Sports Minister Solomon Dalung drew the wrath of football fans and observers following a sequence showing the captain of the Falconets Oluwakemi Famuditi kneeling for to withdraw money from him. .
Dalung was in Austria to watch the Nigeria match against the U-20 Wacker FC Innsbruck Damie 4-0 in a friendly match played in the Donau region in Jenbach, Austria.
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Falconets played a friendly match in Austria in preparation for the U-20 World Cup next month (Facebook / Nneka Ikem Anibeze)
After the match, the Nigerian Minister of Sports Dalung gave the team the sum of N2.4m ($ 7,000) as a boost before the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup campaign in France.
The minister was however severely criticized after the team captain, Famuditi, was seen kneeling while he was collecting money from him.
In a video that was widely circulated on social networks, Famuditi is seen kneeling while she was counting money.
The video as reactions taken from social media.
Dalung shouted
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Dalung gave the players $ 7000 after the match (Facebook / Solomon Dalung)
" What's Happening Here? Captain of the U20 National Women's Team on her lap counting money in front of Solomon Dalung the Minister of Sports " a user Twitter with account @ 9jafootballtalk .
" These girls are Dalung's stars, you have to kneel for them and not for them.Are they beggars or what? Have not they deserved to playing for Nigeria? I'm so discounted #Fifa please Nigerian football is on political rendezvous " Fortune Omenma Agogo said on Facebook .
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This video where the Falconets kneel to recover their rights is simply horrible, and a woman was sitting there next to the grinning official (Dalung or not) shame at @thenff, ] "a Twitter user with the handle
@oloKennethK added.
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Nigeria's Sports Minister Solomon Dalung donated money to the Falconets' under-20 women's team, something that does not seem quite right ? The confusing smile, Bartimeus's leg? The captain of the Syrophoenician team kneeling? What else do you see / do you think? "journalist
Fisayo Dairo says on Twitter.
The Minister has now said something about the video or the reaction that followed and his special assistant Nneka Ikem Anibeze did not respond to requests from ] Pulse Sports at the time of this report. According to Nneka's statement on Facebook, the minister gave the girls money after learning that the team had not been paid match bonuses and camp allowances for six matches of World Cup qualification.
He promised to bridge the gap between men and women's teams.
"My passion for women's football is great and I do not like the idea of treating people differently, " The minister told the girls according to his assistant's statement staff.
" I do not like injustice and it does not seem fair that they are in a camp without their rights.These are young players and if you do not do not give them the morale they need now, when will you do it?
"I am against this idea of unparalleled football development. We must develop and invest in women's football in the same way that we develop and invest in men's football. This gap must be filled.
"I want to assure you that we will spare no effort to ensure that your well-being and that of the coaching team are taken into account because I want to see all these objectives reissued in France
"We will go back and determine your rights to ensure that girls are comfortable in France ."
NB: $ 1 = N360
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