Flamingos forward Alvine Dah-Zossu says she and her teammates were not given a chance against the United States of America in Friday’s quarter-final at the U-17 women’s World Cup.
The Flamingos secured a first-ever semi-final ticket at the U-17 World Cup, after edging USA 4-3 on penalties after playing 1-1 in regulation time.
Omamuzo Edafe had given the Flamingos the lead in the 26th minute after converting a penalty, before Amalica Villarreal equalized for USA with five minutes left to play in the first half.
After both teams failed to get the winning goal the game was decided from the penalty spot with Edafe bagging the decisive kick.
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And reacting to the hard fought victory, Dah-Zossu stated that the Flamingos will continue to fight on until their objective is achieved.
“I lack words to express how excited I’m. Some people wrote us off before the match but we refused to be discouraged and gave our all on the pitch,” Dah-Zossu wrote on Twitter.
“I’m super proud of my teammates, Coaches and backroom staff for the commitment, we did it when many didn’t believe in us.
“Thank you everyone for your support, we can only celebrate and get back to work on Sunday.
“The higher we climb, the tougher it becomes but we are ready to fight on till we achieve our goal,” Dah-Zossu concluded.
Up next for the Flamingos is a semi-final clash against fellow Africans Tanzania or Columbia which comes up on next week Wednesday.
27 Comments
Where are those that wrote them off ?
Oldest looking teenagers I’ve ever seen… Hahahahahaha!!
Your mama is allowed to participate as long as she can play and smart enough to cover her age cheat
They know themselves I don’t need to mention names. Written a team off before the match and now they are hiding some where lolz.
All I want from Flamingos from now is to keep those people away from us and after we winning the trophy then our young ladies can release them all to have some fresh air lolz. This is a sweet victory.
Flamingos should keep improving and never relents. Forward ever Africa/Nigeria. God bless Nigeria!!!
They know themselves I don’t need to mention names. Written a team off before the match and now they are hiding some where lolz.
All I want from Flamingos from now is to keep those people away from us and after winning the trophy then our young ladies can release them all to have some fresh air lolz. This is a sweet victory.
Flamingos should keep improving and never relents. Forward eve
Some real teen grannies. Hope fifa relook this tournament. It is not serving its intended purpose
. . . . . because Ghana cannot make it. The other day almost the whole team was summarily dismissed by MRI scan. FIFA should stop this MRI business so Ghana can have its way.
Look at these women parading as kids, are you not ashamed, are you not embarrassed. Don’t you feel for their opponents
Qatar. Three games. No more.
Over aged mama nothing special about them,they just defeated under 14 Americans nothing more useless county
U sounded just like ur name, too much Agbo consumption is really affecting u.
Looking at the faces of those girls will tell of girls that have tasted suffering and lack.It will tell you of a bunch of girls fighting for survival. Most of them are from secondary school. what do expect of girls like them in a country that have become the head quarterss of poverty.It will not be fair calling them names.
The Americans were really good. So unfair age fraud keeps disturbing this beautiful game. In all these, I blame fifa, they know Africa cheats. In Africa right now, under age competitions are not about the most talented team, it is about the one who cheats most
If you mere look at them in TV ND conclude that they are overage without, knowing anyone of them before one on one bl, then post ur picture here so that we can as well use it to judge ND product ur age , at least with ur picture we gona know age
It is very difficult to change the African, whatever you do and no matter how hard you try they will still remain corrupt. Very disgraceful such things happen in women football. I genuinely feel for the American kids,they should be proud of themselves
Anytime they lose, they are under age. Once they win, they are over age. Deluded people.
African football is like African politics, very corrupt. Even those who call for change and for the right things to be done, are deemed deluded
Most Ghanaians love Nigeria,but they can’t admit it. They wish to be Nigerians. But since there is nothing they can do about it,they prefer to be jealous, which is wrong. They capitalise on every mistake by Nigerians to attack,all because of jealousy. It’s wrong. You should be grateful to God. Some countries are worse than Ghana. Stop the frequent attack and pray for God’s favour on your country.
Its really amazing how folks here think. So because they won now, the are suddenly overage, if they had lost, it would have been the tribal card being played. These girls are young and its obvious, the Americans look bigger and older than them….dont disrespect them because they are blacks. Have some respect.
Most Ghanaians love Nigeria,but they can’t admit it. They wish to be Nigerians. But since there is nothing they can do about it,they prefer to be jealous, which is wrong. They capitalise on every mistake by Nigerians to attack,all because of jealousy. It’s wrong. You should be grateful to God. Some countries are worse than Ghana. Stop the frequent attack and pray for God’s favour on your country.
Ghanaians it’s high time you stop giving bad names to your country because not all Ghanaians are negative and ill wishers. The only worry is that this negativity is fast spreading and affecting the good ones making majority envious and enemies of progress. The side effect of this envy is having a toil on your fate as nation, even though the world at large is suffering from inflation and recession, Ghana’s plight tends to stand as the worst performing currency compared to other African nations according to the world market and Reuters. Even in the just concluded week your cedi currency lost 20% value to the USD in just a space of 5days and that is astronomical madness in forex term. So you have more problems to deal than meddling with Nigerians progress!!! Help yourselves Ghana!!!
Electricity sef Nigeria no get, which progress you dey make. Is Ghana the reason why you dey cheat these small girls in India. Your country men on dis forum dey say ibe poverty which dey make your under 17 girls look like dem dey their late twenties. Is this a mark of a country making progress?
You have a serious problem and if you go on record it’s your u17 that was convicted of age cheat by the Moroccans and you come here talking trash. What has Nigerians done to Ghanaians? Are we the one that is making your country hard that someone even went to commit suicide on high tension in Kasoa. Wipe your tears and turn away from jealousy and God will heal your nation of poverty. It’s just too much of pain on your people already and IMF can not even help you guys.
Game was given to Nigeria, what a joke.
Refs were a joke. Garbage call giving Nigeria a penalty. They were out shot 28 to 7. USA won!
These Ghanaians morphing into different names to hate on Naija……Hell nah lmaoo or maybe it’s just one lunatic using several names. The hatred towards Nigeria is just unbelievable lol wtf… Last I remembered the Ghanian u17 boys lost like 14 players few days before the wafu championship due to attempted age cheating and these ugly monsters have the audacity to come here to talk shit lol.
Only people with low iq would come out to say they are overage without any proof. These girls crime is because majority are yorubas and some people believe a certain tribe deserve to rule our national teams just like some people in Nigeria believe they are born to rule. Another reason they claim is because of their looks and I wonder how you want girls that are undernourished to look like? Girls that can not boast of twice meal a day and girls that are in this tournament to survive so that they can take their family from abject poverty. We won that match purely because God saw their hearts of purity and their eagerness to make it in life. That’s why God gave us the opportunity to retake that penalty.
These girls can hardly kick the ball very well because they have weak bones due to too much of garri. Please let’s encourage these girls they have gone through a lot in the hand of bad leadership in Nigeria. Anyone who has personally experienced poverty would understand.