“I couldn’t afford college” – Father of Falconet star elated his daughter will play for Nigeria on the U-20 FIFA Girls’s World Cup

Father of Nigerian U-20 Feminine footballer, Seimeyeha Janet Akekoromewei, has shared his delight on the alternative the nation has given his daughter, Soccernet.ng reviews.

The 17-year-old hails from Ese-Odo in Ondo state, however was raised in Lagos, and is a product of the Asisat Oshoala Academy.

She’s been extensively tipped to be the breakout Tremendous Falcons on the 2024 FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup hosted in Colombia, and can kick-off in 9 days. Whereas it seems like she may lead the Falconets to the cusp of glory, her story has not all the time been sunshine and rainbows.

Seimeyeha is the final of 11 kids born to Ekperekunmo Akekoromowei Igbala, a retired policeman, however her mom died in June 2014. The ahead practically joined the Nigerian Police Drive after graduating from highschool, however for the intervention of Olympic gold medallist, Chioma Ajunwa, who as an alternative, informed the striker to give attention to soccer, as that’s the place her reward lies.

The 6ft2-in-tall striker joined the Asisat Oshoala academy, and has continued to show heads with the power she possesses at such a younger age, scoring in Nigeria’s 2-1 win over Tanzania within the FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup qualifiers.

Regardless of their unique inclusion, Seimeyeha and 6 different women had been dropped from Nigeria’s African Video games squad. This was as a result of solely gamers born between 2002 and 2006 had been eligible to take part, however she made Christian Danjuma’s World Cup squad checklist, which made her father elated.

“I’m so completely happy my daughter shall be taking part in for Nigeria on the Girls’s World Cup. I used to be only a police officer struggling to get by, and I needed my daughter to get by as nicely as a result of I couldn’t enroll her in college as a result of I didn’t have the cash. She adopted her goals and he or she has made all of us proud. I’m very grateful to the Asisat Oshoala Academy and their director, who all the time referred to as me to guarantee me she could be an amazing footballer. We are going to help her all the best way and need her all the perfect,” Ekperekunmo Akekoromowei informed Soccernet.ng.

The striker’s inclusion means she’s the second participant from the Asisat Oshoala Academy to have featured in an Worldwide event this 12 months, having a member within the  Girls’s U-20 and U-17 World Cups, respectively, which is a testomony to the nice work put in by the academy, owned by the Bay F.C. ahead.

The FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup kicks off on August thirty first and can run until September twenty second. This version marks the enlargement of the event to permit the participation of 24 nationwide groups.

The Tremendous Falconets have been drawn into Group D alongside Germany, Venezuela, and Korea Republic within the group stage.

Nigeria kick off their marketing campaign towards Korea Republic on September 2, earlier than taking up Germany two days after. They’ll play their closing group sport towards Venezuela on September 7. The Falconets will play friendlies towards Mexico and Australia in preparation for his or her outing in Colombia.