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Women’s U17 football: Nigeria’s Flamingos vow to keep improving

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Women’s U17 football: Nigeria’s Flamingos vow to keep improvingWikimedia Morocco · CC BY-SA 4.0

Captain Chidi Harmony urges her teammates to put behind them their U17 world title, which she presents as a beginning. The Flamingos, Nigeria’s under-17 national team, intend to keep improving without resting on this success, reports Premium Times.

The captain of the Flamingos, Nigeria’s under-17 women’s national team, Chidi Harmony, says the squad must turn the page on its success and focus on correcting its mistakes and improving individual performance.

These remarks follow the world title won in Morocco on 9 November, as well as the 100 million naira given by Nigerian President Tinubu to each player.

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