By Victor Kanayo
Nigeria’s women amputee football team, also known as the Special Falcons, are out of the first Women Amputee World Cup which begins on Monday, 4 November 2024 in Colombia.
Heritage Times HT gathered that the Nigerian team who were drawn in Group C alongside Ecuador, the USA, and Ukraine, will no longer take part in the inaugural competition due to the refusal of the Colombian Embassy to grant the team visa into the country.
The same fate also befell the Kenyan Women Amputee Football team, hence the number of teams to participate in the world cup has been reduced to 10.
The development is a huge blow and setback to the growth of Amputee Women football in Nigeria as the Special Falcons have been training in Abuja in preparations for the historic tournament.
The Cameroonians Amputee Women team is the only African team left in the competition and they will play alongside Brazil, Colombia and Poland in Group A.
Group B will be left with Peru, Haiti, England, after Kenya pulled out .
The World Cup will run from November 4 to November 10, 2024, in Barranquilla Colombia, bringing together the best women’s amputee football teams from across the globe
