Stakeholders nail Women’s Super Six tourney

Stakeholders, including Head Coach of Delta Queens Dan Evumena have strongly canvassed for a radical move to give Nigerian Women’s Football a new direction. He was not alone at least six others made the same observation regarding the new wave that Nigerian women’s football must take.
The former Nigerian champions finished a distant fourth at the just concluded NWFL Super Six competition in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

Title holders Rivers Angels confirmed their supremacy at the four-day event with a 1-0 win against challengers Bayelsa Queens in the final to claim an unprecedented sixth title.
Evumena, who did not hide his discomfort with the programmes of the Super Six as well as the activities of the outgoing board, said time was ripe for stakeholders to join hands together to enthrone a viable and virile leadership at the polls.

“Of course, time is ripe for a meaningful change to be effected into the headship of the NWFL.
“And I think the upcoming NWFL election provides genuine stakeholders the rare chance to come out in one accord to disown the incumbent and its allies.
“What we witnessed at the just concluded Super Six competition was a mere sham. I think the event only took place because the election is around the corner. Without it, the season would have gone unnoticed.
“There was nothing to show among the six teams and officials that the championship was sponsored.

“We heard that Abia State government sponsored the event but until the curtain fell on the competition nobody knew its monetary worth or entitlements for the teams or the winners.
“No provision was made available for the teams and one was left to ask why the secrecy?
“The poor handling of the Super Six mirrors the the league itself as sponsors have continued to shun the league like a plague.
“The league season was a comic-drama of boycotts as teams lacked the necessary funds to prosecute their matches as sponsors of some teams, mostly state governments, are pulling out or withholding funds.
An election into the NWFL board is expected to be held before the year runs out.