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Super Falcons defender Ashleigh Plumptre has congratulated Nigeria’s Flamingos following their qualification to the semi-final at this year’s FIFA U-17 women’s World Cup in India.
In Friday’s quarter-finals the Flamingos edged out Favourites USA 4-3 on penalties after 90 minutes of football ended 1-1.
Omamuzo Edafe gave the Flamingos the lead from the penalty spot in the 26th minute before USA equalized through Amalica Villarreal on 40 minutes.
This is the second time a Nigerian women’s team will defeat an American side at any level.
The first time was in the quarter-finals of the 2010 U-20 World Cup in Germany, with the Falconets also winning via penalty shootout after extra-time ended 1-1.
And reacting to the win against the USA U-17 women’s team, Plumptre wrote on her Twitter handle:“Onto the semis!!! Well done girls! 🇳🇬👊🏽.”
The Flamingos will now face either Columbia or debutant Tanzania in the semi-final on Wednesday, 26 October.
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congratulations girls. so proud of you
Tell me why NFF need good for nothing foreign coach that melt our tax payer for achieving nothing in training our SF while we have good local coach in Nigeria that can make us proud
NFF open Una eyes by force and by fire
Nigeria rode on luck today to defeat the Americans. The coach need a better tactical input to advance further in the tournament. However, congratulations on the feat
Excellent & Sound tactics still rely on luck to thrive..
Self belief: played out..
No the team played one of the best attacking sides in the tournament. Kudos to them, they were organized defensively
If American are better , why didn’t they score in regulation time ?..abeg give our girls thier duly deserve credit , they defended well which is part of the game!!… Nigeria in the semi’s and America back home eating Amala and owedu!
Oga Sir,
Which good local coach we get for Nigeria.
I am not sure you watched this game at all because if you did, you would realize that it was a fantastically disjointed performance by 9ja. We couldn’t even complete 2,3 passes before we turn it over to the American girls. Nevertheless, kudos to the team for the SF qualification but the going can only get tougher from here.
Congrats once again to the Flamingos
@GentleD Once upon a time Chelsea Fc won her first champions league trophy by parking the bus. @GentleD,Greece also won the Euros by parking the bus. Of recent , Tunisia eliminated Nigeria by parking the bus. So bros if u don’t understand football keep ur mouth shut. Don’t come here and talk down local coaches. Any tactics that wins a match for u is the best for that day and for that match. You can’t string passes every match. Sometimes u allow ur opponent possess the ball and hit them on the counter. I have watched even Barcelona and Man city two teams with best tiki taka philosophy deploy this tactics to achieved an objective in a particular match .Nigeria defeated USA because the coach was better in terms of reading how USA play and deploying the best tactics that neutralize them and won. So stop saying rubbish. Look at Senegal , is their coach better than all Nigerian coaches? Capital no to cut a long story short.
Good response bro , you nailed it , any tactics a coach used to win a game is the best tactics!!!.tiki taka don’t win you game , goals do and Super Flamingoes won because they out scored the US !!
A typical Nigerian way of judging situations. We are usually ahead of ourselves in making conclusions about matters. Congrats to the girls for their grit and determination. But our local coaches are still completely off the mark. Believe me.
But what have the foreign achieved that gives the impression they are better? world cup quarter final?apart from gold at at the Olympics,and even that was nearly achieved by siasia in 98, what’s that thing seemingly unsurmountable height they climbed that looks clearly impossible for local coach to reach
Congratulations goes to the girls for self believing. For those of us that watch the game would have agree with me that the team lack deficiency and cohesion. No pattern of play, no confidence and lack tactical input. Flamingoes won the game as a result of luck. USA were far better than Nigeria with confidence and individual skills. Our girls played today’s match with individual brilliance and energy to carry the day. Once again Congratulations girl and bring the trophy to Nigeria.
USA EMPLOYED ALL THRY HAVE AND WE UTILIZED OUR OWN ADVANTAGE AFTER DUE DILIGENCE HAD BED DONE AND SBD SAYS WINNING JUST HAPPEN ABI? WE THANK GOD.
U be fool. Who told u , u can win USA without been tactical. Pls stop coming here to expose ur ignorance about football.
Sometimes you need element of luck in life too. Sometimes the race might not just be for the swift. Let us enjoy this moment while it last. We need to praise these girls for not also conceding any how against almighty USA.
USA female soccer team at any level no be our mate. They might not have any patern of play but ability to hold the us team is something we should commend them for.
Now let this victory boost their confidence in getting to final and possibly wọn the trophy.
The team’s lack 0f cohesion in the middle of the pack is largely due to lack proper preparation. We need to look at thst as well. You can’t put a group of girls together two weeks to a tournament and expect them to do well. Technically, the team is good but without any doubt, the Americans were better
technically the team is bad and the good too is half baked, but individually the players are above average.mother luck got us this victory, also let us not forget that most of these players know as well as their family that should they perform well they have hit jackpot. Today’s game was purely the intervention of God believe it or leave it.
i still wonder what they practise in training because at times i wonder why its difficult to put passes right , hit targets or even clear the ball instead of passing wrongly. The problems is with the coaches . an average coach will perform magic with this team , the technical team seem to be bereft of modern football movement. except for Siasia all our local coaches have problem with organising their team positioning with or without the ball and i think this is why we mostly lose to better teams.
You are talking robbish . I remember even Barcelona park the bus whenever they play Liverpool because of their high pressing attacking game and fast players. If u don’t know football go and sleep and stop coming here to expose your tactical mediocrity. Listen and listen very well OK. U can’t defit the USA in female football by luck with deploying the best tactics. Did Germany not park the bus against Oshoala and co and defeat Nigeria to win the final of that years U20 woman. Its about ball possession and beautiful football every time. Go ask morhino best coach in the world to explain better for u.
I watched inter wen dey won champions league under morinhho and eto was at inter den. Inter play 10 defenders and no attack. Still inter won.
Guy shut up your mouth there , your write up is senseless and rubbish put together .The girls did what was expected of them , US is concacaf champions and they have been together for such a long time .What our girls did is to use thier power game to tire out the US girls , disrupt thier system play and play them on the counter !!..They were not there to compete with US on tiki taka , they are there to disrupt there tiki taka and play US on the counter and tire them out , which they did and succeeded.Now where is US ?..at home and where is our girl ?..in the semi’s!!..and surely that is what the record books will read and not your nonsense analysis!!
I thank God for good officiating.
That referee deserve award.
Congratulations, Nigerian babies. Personally, l never gave you all any hope of doing the impossible but, you did. l shall never give up on you again. Nigerian babies, you made me eat my words. From the bottom of my heart, l thank you for beating US tonight.
You are Man sir! You flayed them before the game and yet you are humble enough to eat your own words and apologize to the girls! This kind of attitude will surely improve Nigeria. Viva Flamingos de Naija
I just hope Ako Amadi, Okponkwu and their cronies will also be man enough to also come here and swallow the tribal rubbish they spewed here when the team lost to a better drilled side in Germany.
This is why I love you so much my lovely friend Edoman. You realized your mistake and you made correction.
Bravo. Let’s go our Flamingos. We thank God for you our young ladies. What Super Eagles
and Super Falcons couldn’t do, you are doing it much better. God bless Nigeria!!!
We won and different grammar is still flying all over the place. I was very sure we will win the game as I posted few days ago.Sincerely I believe in playing badly and winning than gathering all the statistics and losing.Today the girls were hunted by the quarter finals ghost that have trailed them in the past.They were just ready not to concede and defended until they were gasping for breathe and it paid off.They will sure play their game and better in the semis.As the injured players would have fully recovered.
God bless u sir
Naija girls showed great courage and determination to survive a stern USA examination.
That USA winger Onyeka Gamero….WOOOOOW. Will not surprise me if she ends up in the USA senior team in the nearest future. Some would argue that she should be there already.
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The waterlogged pitch contributed as to why the players had difficulties making the right passes, and you can’t compare them to Americans who uses all technology to tackle situations. I only speak when there are loopholes to tackle, I am not one of those who criticises even when it’s working so I give credits to the girls for battling out a result regardless of however. Next on the line is a likely skilful Colombia side led by their fantastic trio forward line .
Nawa for Some naija fans o!
If US team had the opportunity to defend and qualify for semis, do you think they’ll just play for nothing? Ghana will be at the World Cup now . with rubbish they played against us, they still qualified.
Let’s all learn to praise and support our team. It was USA we played against not Tanzania.
It took a fake penalty for you to even get a goal against Ghana. Prepare for the next afcon, Ghana has WORLD CUP to play. Ghana will whip you whenever and wherever we meet you. Keep cheating in under age tournaments, pathetic
Take your whipping to the world cup , that is where it is needed !!..Ghana have never won anything in the past forty years in your men senior football , yet you have the audacity to open your mouth here !!..Yes you edged Niger on technical ground to the world , go and prove yourself , otherwise remain deaf and dumb till after the world cup !!
Ghana has a better afcon record than Nigeria, Ghana has a better world cup record than Nigeria. Talking about whipping, sometimes the whipping gets so intense that, it even ends in 7-0
Na waaoo! anytime Nigeria played well and lose, we will say the other team was tactically better, but if our teams didn’t completely play well as expected but win their game, we are not tactically better. The point is the Americans were the better side and were expected to win, but the Nigerian coach was tactically better; the flamengoes allowed them to play but neutralized their shooting abilities near the box, that’s why the American girls found it difficult to shoot properly. Some people questioned the penalty given to the flamengoes, this is due to ignorance of the rule, if one leg is inside the box when the foul is committed, tha’s a penalty, and tha’s the rule. As for the replay of the penalty,the American goalkeeper came off the line to catch the ball, that should be replayed according to the rule. As a Nigerian – American, i support America in soccer,just as i support Nigeria, in this situation, the American girls blew their chances, there no excuses; let us congratulate the flamengoes for stopping such a team as the U.S team and stop complaining.
I am amazed with what am seeing here.Folks seems to forget that the most important statistics in a football match is the final scores.if you like play the most attractive and sexy football, if the final scores is not in your favour, you have just wasted your time. A year from now, it is the final score that will be talked about, no one will remember that the US was the better team.
I must commend the Nigerian coach for his tactical and technical approach to the game.He knew the American were batter, lady for lady, so he set up a formation that restricted the Americans from shooting from afar largely.To ease the pressure on his defense, he should have played a two ladies defensive midfielders and also played a ball carrier that can dribble and hold on to the ball whilst her team transition from defensive to attacking formation and vice versa.
We should not criticize him.He played to his team strengths and won, that is all that matters.
And for those doubting the ages of these girls, they are truly young.More than 90% of them are in JSS or SS1 in secondary schools in Minna, suleja, Abuja and keffi.The coach is a grassroot coach in Minna.Na suffer make them dey look like that oh
The NFF working with Oshoala,Rasidat,Onome and Plumptre should help in getting at least 6 members of this U17 and U20 team each to clubs abroad.That way, the can develop properly and the future of the super Falcons secured
@Toni the girls look young,their appearance doesn’t look older than required.
Those maliciously calling them old are hurting Ghanaians who watch our games hoping we get battered.
Our misery makes them happy,please do not give in to that.