Former Super Falcons player, Vera Okolo, has described the ill-treatment meted to them at the by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, at the 2004 African Women’s Championship in South Africa.

Okolo, in an interview with journalists on the poor way the female team are often treated whenever they travel for international competitions, described how the team drank garri before playing two matches for Nigeria in the said tournament.

Okolo said "We couldn’t feed well. It was even after the tournament that many Nigerians in South Africa heard what was happening to us. They were shocked and started bringing food to us. We had food then than during the tournament. Nigeria could not take care of us."

Trendy Sports recalls that the Super Falcons refused to head home after winning the tournament.

The Falcons star recalled how the team played the two-week long tournament with only two pairs of white jerseys and one pair of green jerseys, without thick wears, despite the cold in South Africa during the period.

According to her, "when asked them why, they said they were bringing kits from Nigeria, that we should make do with what we have." On her part, she described how she featured in two of the matches with groin injury, just to make the country proud.

The Super Falcons forward, noted that throughout the championship which they won the finals against Cameroon 5-0, they were not paid a single match bonus.

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