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Falconets were not owed at France 2018 – Danjuma

Head Coach of the U-20 Women National Team, Chris Danjuma, has dispelled reports claiming that players and officials of his team were not paid their entitlements before and during the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup finals in France. Danjuma led the Falconets to a quarter-finals berth at the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in France “I see this as a silly, mischievous story. I have spoken to my assistants and backroom staff and they all denied talking to the reporter,” Danjuma said in a media statement released by the media department of the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday. “We were paid our entitlements for the camping in Austria and at the FIFA World Cup, and no money was lost as claimed in the story.” “From the very first day I saw the reporter in our camp prior to our departure to the final training camp in Austria, I observed he was a very funny figure just looking for negative stuff to report. “It is unfortunate that some persons commit their lives to trying to cause m...