It's not yet uhuru.... Ajibade

It's not yet uhuru.... Ajibade
It's not yet uhuru.... Ajibade


Super Falcons Captain Ajibade Rasheedat has insisted that the time to celebrate their quest to be in the Olympics is not yet now, that the celebration should be delayed till after the last qualifiers against Cameroon. 

It could be recalled that the Super Falcons On Tuesday whitewashed their Ethiopian counterparts by five goals to one aggregate. 

The former African champions had earlier played a one all draw with the Ethiopians in Adisababa last week. 

The Super Falcons took 68 minutes to finished the routing of their visitors with Uchenna Kanu breaking the deadlock in the 45th minutes, and Rasheedat Ajibade getting a brace in the 50th, and 73th. Asisat Oshoala completed the routing in the 68th minutes. 

Rasheedat who captained the team, gave special thanks to God for the victory, her  teammates and backroom staff for a job well done. 

Quoting her words, the former FC Robo player said " the job is not done yet, it is still a long way to go and of course  we have to move one step at a time so we are grateful for today's win". 

Continuing, the mercurial striker said " we will keep our focus and concentration high because we cannot get carried away by this win, We will keep up the energy till we move to the next level". 

"Like I said earlier, we take it one step at a time and it's been a while Nigeria qualified for the Olympics. I've not been there before. I think out of everyone in the squad only one player has been to the Olympics and it is a dream for everyone of us to be in the Olympics this time. So we are going to compete and keep fighting to make sure we are in the Olympics in Paris next year".

She gave kudos to the technical crew saying "I'm very sure they have been passing some message to the team and we know in the team we have the quality and the skills and talents that could compete against any team in the world and with the coaches, it is going to be accomplished. So we  just have to keep competing untill the very end" she rounded up.

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