Nigeria is focusing on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games after its males’s and girls’s groups had been each victorious on the inaugural African Flag Soccer Championship.
The game is a non-contact variant of American soccer, the place gamers want to tug a flag off the individual with the ball as an alternative of tackling their opponent to the bottom.
Flag soccer will make its Olympic debut at LA 2028 and, as African champions, each Nigerian sides have earned direct qualification for subsequent yr’s Flag Soccer World Championships.
Oluwaseye Obatolu, the vice chairman of the Nigeria American Soccer Affiliation (Nafa), described the nation’s triumphs in Egypt on Saturday as “deeply symbolic”.
“It was a second of immense pleasure to be the primary [African] nation, each women and men, to qualify for the World Championships,” Obatolu advised BBC Sport Africa.
“Our focus now could be clear – we aren’t simply attending the World Championships, we’ll compete. Our eyes are firmly set on Los Angeles 2028.”
The primary African Flag Soccer Championship, which was organised by the Worldwide Federation of American Soccer (IFAF), featured a complete of 11 groups from eight international locations throughout the continent.
