We’ll Honour Dike For Turning Down $7,000 Match Bonus – NFF `

THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), says that at an auspicious time, it will honour Nigerian female junior international, Courtney Dike for her selfless and exemplary service to the nation.

Dike a member of the National U-20 female team, the Falconets who played at the final of the Canada 2014 FIFA world cup stunned Nigerian officials when she refused to accept the over $7,000 dollars being her match bonuses, allowances and other entitlements.

The player who is based in the United States of America with her parents was reported to have told officials of the NFF that her father had told her not to accept any financial reward because wearing the national colours was enough honour.

Speaking on this rear gesture, the Chairman of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL), Chief (Mrs) Dilichukwu Onyedinma told journalists in Abuja that people and families like that of Courtney Dike were very rear hence the need to specially reward her because she has become a role model.

“In Namibia when I met with the minister I mentioned it to him because it is a very huge sacrifice, let me say it was an exemplary behaviour coming from a footballer but why I am even more interested is because it is coming from a female footballer.”

“This has shown that we have it all, we have discipline and the highest discipline you can have as a human being is money discipline so if I can have a girl who has that kind of money discipline and the parents supported her so we should applaud her and even put her on the billboards to tell the world that she is our star. She is a patriotic Nigerian”.

Onyedinma who is also a member of the NFF board used the opportunity to take a swipe at some people who were said to have been running down the NWFL under her watch describing them as people who will criticize anybody as long as they were not in the position.

According to her it is a big irony that at a time when everybody was celebrating the nation’s female football, some people still see reasons to attempt to diminish the rare achievement of the Super Falcons winning the African Women Championship (AWC) for a record seven times.