Reactions trail the omission of Chiamaka Nnadozie, Super Falcons goalkeeper from the nomination list for best female goalkeeper released by FIFA npflupdates.com reports.
Federation of International Football Association FIFA, yesterday released its nomination list for the best female goalkeeper in 2023. Sadly, Chiamaka Nnadozie, Super Falcons goalkeeper didn’t make the cut, despite her outstanding performances for club and at the 2023 FIFA world cup tournament.
And Nigerians, fans and footballers are not happy with the nomination, as they cited partiality on the side of FIFA.
According to the nomination list by FIFA, Australia’s Mackenzie Arnold, Catalina Coll(Spain) Ann-Katrin Berger(Germany) made the list.
Others are: Mary Earp’s(England), Christiane Endler(Chile), Zecira Musovic(Sweden) and Sandra Panos Garcia-Villamil.
Reactions from football fans have been pouring in on various social media platforms following the nomination list.
Reactions trail omission of Super Falcons Chiamaka Nnadozie from FIFA Best list
According to a Facebook user, Raymond Idongesit, FIFA is “very subtle with the selectio.” He stressed that, the football body only entertains exceptionally good players of African extraction for the award; while also agreeing they are not evenly selected.
“They are very subtle with the selection… Following their act you will agree with me that you need to be exceptionally good as an African before they can consider including you in their selection and for you to merit their favour…. Never evenly” Raymond Idongesit reacted to a Facebook post.
Meanwhile, Ma Azubuike, highlighted that selections are made based on last season’s performances. He opined that, if Chiamaka Nnadozie can maintain her form in the new season, she will stand a chance.
“This is assessed based on last season’s performances. If she continues to improve this year, she might make it next,” Ma Azubuike said on Facebook.
“I Like Your Point Of Argument. But You Must Get To Quarter Finals Of A Tournament Before The Issue Of Award Comes In. Unless No Other Person Outperform You. For Instance When A Player With The Highest Goal Scored In A Tournament Played Only Group Matches Or Fewer Matches. But He/She Cannot Get The Player Of The Tournament,” Daniel Chimezie Obiagwu stated in his opinion.
Another user, King Francis, in what looked like a legal advise, had asked Nigerians to approach the court of law.
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“The same reason y dey no call Peter Obi as the president of Nigeria . So if you don’t like as dey no call name u can go to court.”
