All may not be well with the Super Falcons of Nigeria ahead of the 2014 Africa Women Championship (AWC) as head coach Edwin Okon has claimed to be owed as much as two years’ salary.
Edwin Okon
He said: “Since August 2012 when I led the Falconets to the World Cup where we came fourth, up till now, I’m yet to get a dime as salary from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
“Every time I go to the office to complain, they will say there is no money. At a time I learned that the Federal Government gave the federation some money to pay Stephen Keshi and other national team coaches, but up till today my story is still the same,” he told reporters in Abuja.
The Rivers Angels coach who in 2011 signed a four year contract with the NFF to coach the Falconets was last year promoted to the senior women national team, the Super Falcons – albeit on an interim capacity after the resignation of erstwhile coach Kadiri Ikhana who failed do well with the team.
Nigeria’s Super Falcons are drawn alongside hosts Namibia, Cote d’Ivoire and Zambia in the Group A of AWC, which kicks off on October 11.
The top three teams from the championship will qualify for the 2015 FIFA Women’sWorld Cup in Canada.
The Nigerian ladies will also be looking to redeem themselves at the tournament after they finished fourth in the last edition of the biennial tournament, their worst-ever finish in the history of the Championship.
