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Why Falconets Overstayed At Istanbul Airport – NFF

The Nigeria Football Federation has explained why the players and officials of the U20 Girls National Team, Falconets, overstayed at the Istanbul Airport.

by NewsOnline Nigeria
August 24, 2022
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The NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, who made the clarification in a statement on Wednesday, maintained that there were a lot of factors that led to the delay the players experienced at the Turkish airport.

Newsonline report that a number of factors, including the inability to secure transit visas led to the team having to stay 24 hours at the airport in Turkey on their way from the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup.

The statement read:, “The NFF did not book the team’s tickets from Costa Rica; FIFA did. FIFA also did not envisage the hitches that saw the team delayed for more than three hours in Bogota, and another one hour in Panama. By the time the team got to Istanbul, the flight to Abuja had left.

“Our officials pleaded for compassionate transit visas so as to take the players and officials to a hotel inside the town, but this was not possible as they were informed that Nigeria had been removed from the list of countries whose citizens were issued visa-on-arrival in Turkey.

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The airline then took the team to a sleeping area at the airport and gave them tickets to have meals every five hours. This situation has nothing to do with NFF, who had made arrangements to receive the team in Abuja before the complications in travel arrangements.”

He said that the NFF had implored the world football governing body, FIFA, to intervene with the Embassy of Germany to issue the team transit visas before their departure from Nigeria, in order for the team to be able to travel through Germany, adding that “this did not happen”.

On the issue of body wear, Sanusi said, “The players were handed three sets of green jerseys and two sets of white jerseys, several house-wear types and training jerseys.

The players opted to wash only their jersey top (no other stuff) because when the first set of body-wear was sent to the laundry people at the hotel, it returned with some FIFA and NFF badges at the front and names at the back peeled by the machine.”

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