Inspectors from global football governing body, FIFA, will arrive in Nigeria on Monday for a four-day inspection of facilities and equipment that the country has to host the U20 women’s World Cup in 2020.
Spokesperson for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ademola Olajire, announced this in a statement on Sunday.
He said that the five-man delegation will arrive at Lagos on Monday evening.
The inspection party will fly to Abuja on Thursday after inspection of facilities in hosting cities for a meeting with senior officials from the youth and sports ministry.
Nigeria is one of the four countries to have participated in every edition of the FIFA U20 Women’s Cup since the competition was launched in 2002 in Canada as a U-19 Championship.
It was upgraded to U20 competition in 2008. The US, Germany and Brazil are the other three ever-present teams.
The Falconets reached the final of the competition in 2010 and 2014, losing to Germany on both occasions, and were semifinalists in Japan in 2012.
