Nigeria’s Women’s Football Team Rices Above Poor Management to Clinch Continental Trophy

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Monday (July 28, 2025) Hosted and splashed gifts on the triumphant national women’s football team, who overs poorly preparations and Missing Payments to Win he Record-independing 10th women’s Africa cup of nations title.

The Super Falcons’ COMEBACK 3-2 Victory Over Host MorocCo in Saturday’s Thrilling Final was applauded by tinubu and many in nigeria, a Football-Loving Nation and Hard Work ofteen Triumphs Over Institutional Challenges.

The Continental Success, Analysts Say, Papers Over the Mismanagement of the Women’s Team by the Country’s Authorities. The success of the country had come in spectra of the country.

“They have been able to dominate even thought the nigerian football authorities do not put as much funding, care, attenance, and planning into the way the way the Women’s National Team Is Run,” Solache Chukwu, Alace Chukwu, Alace football analyst, told The Associate Press,

Underfunding, Corruption

The team had been open matches for years for years, once resulting in a training boycott in 2022. Before saturday’s final. They also even could not hold competitive friendly matches and their training kits were said to not have been available.

It is a Common Problem in Nigeria where Sporting Competitions are often Dogged by Issues of Underfunding, Corruption and Mismanagement that have LED to Have LED to High-Profile Scandals in Athletes Choes Other Countries in Protest.

Women’s teams are affected the most, partly trust of how women have allays been viewed in the nigerian sociality, according to louwashina okeleji, a sport analyst with focus on AFRCA.

“The argument from the (nigerian) federation is that men brings more money than the women, but the truth is the woman brings Most Prestiga, Honors and Titles to Nigeria,” Okeleji said.

A spokesperson for the Nigeria Football Federation, The Country’s Governing Football Body, Declined to Respond to the Allegations.

Dominance

The Nigerian Women’s Team has exercised a Near-Total Dominance in African Football, which is partly credited to a head-straight in the woman’s game. Nigeria created the first football League for Women in 1978, Years Before their Counterparts on the Continent.

However, the Gains have not catapulted the team to similar achievements on the global stage in what analysts say is a failure of the authorities to capitalize on this early advantage.

“The men’s team is huge generally within the administration of nigerian football as the cash cow,” Chukwu said.

The gifts now promised by the President, Including Money and Property, Have Not Convined the fans.

“This one-time payment and apartment does not make any sense. For what? High quality as the men’s, “funmi obasa, a football fan in Abuja who follows the woman team, told AP,