FIFA U-17 Women’s W/Cup qualifier: Namibia coach vows to punish Flamingoes in Windhoek

Sports FIFA U-17 Women’s W/Cup qualifier: Namibia coach vows to punish Flamingoes in Windhoek

Posted By: Mercy Jacobon: January 11, 2016

Namibia U 17 women’s team coach, Melvin Mbakera has vowed that his wards will take Flamingoes to the cleaners in their return leg match in the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup quali­fiers in Windhoek.
The Flamingoes, Nigeria’s national under-17 women football team, defeated the Baby Gladiators of Namibia 4-0 in a second round first leg match.
The match, played at the Abuja Na­tional Stadium’s main bowl on Saturday, saw the Bala Nikyu tutored side outplay­ing their counterparts in a match which match watchers dubbed one sided.
But Mbakera has rubbished the im­pressive runs of the Nigerians boasting matter-of-fact that the Nigerian girls will literarily see ‘pepper’ when hostilities for the second leg encounter which will take place in a fortnight’s time in Wind­hoek begin.
The 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup is scheduled for Jordan from Sep­tember 30 to October 21.
A frustrated Mbakera, however, ac­cused Nigeria of fielding over aged play­ers, which according to him was what led to their defeat on Saturday in Abuja, in­sisting that Nigerian team was not stron­ger than his team.
“I will praise my team because they fought well, even though their efforts could not yield them a good result. But, we will not lose our second leg game.
We have seen our mistakes, and we will go back home to correct them and prevent the Flamingoes from beating us in the second leg. The Nigerian team is not super.
“The goals we conceded were due to minor mistake caused by my players.
We came here with real U-17s but Nige­ria fielded U-23 players. But no problem we’ll meet again back in our home. This is not fair this is the reason why most countries don’t want to play in the U 17, ‘’ he said.