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Victorious Nigeria Flag Football Team Return To Abuja with Gold

 

The Nigerian American Football Association ( NAFA ) has returned to Abuja with Gold. medal after a successful outing in Egypt.

Nigeria participated in IFAF Africa Flag Football continental Games in Egypt billed for the 20-21 of June 2025 arrival Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

speaking to journalist the Founder and president of the Nigerian American Football Association Babajide Akeredolu said the ideal came up as a student in the US and I played flag football. But then it wasn’t called flag it’s called two hand touch.

“Then we played for a while. we moving back to Nigeria in 2017 we all set up a league. Then over time, we felt, Instead of focusing on playing in a private League, let’s focus on grassroots.

“I’m sure a lot of people want to expand it more. Now that the male team has qualify for the Olympic , the females have to go through the world champion to qualify for the Olympics we have what it takes to compete.

Absolutely, we have proving that we are the Africa champions so regardless to that Method but there is alots of work to do for the world game next year even though we are happy with one but we are already back to work and make sure that we improving and getting to the world stage and nobody is going to underestimate us.

 

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