Confident Flamingos land in Conakry, ready for Guinea tie

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja

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A confident Nigeria’s U-17 women’s football team, Flamingos landed in Conakry, the Guinean capital earlier today ahead of the FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2020 African qualifier first round
first leg match against their Guinean opponents.
The Nigerian delegation made up of 18 players, 3 coaches and 5 backroom staff as well as an Assistant Director of Technical in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) left Abuja for Conakry in the early hours of today (March 5) aboard Air Cote d’ Ivoire which stopped over in Abidjan before arriving Conakry.
The officials of Federation du Guinea Football (FGF) were at the international airport to receive the Nigerian contingent. They have since settled down at the team hotel in the capital city, Conakry.
PromptNews has exclusively learnt that the Flamingos will have a light workout later today in Conakry under the watchful eyes of Stand-in Head Coach, Olowookere Abimbola.