Nigeria is targeting the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Gamings after its guys’s and females’s teams were both triumphant at the inaugural African Flag Football Championship.
The sporting activity is a non-contact variant of American football, where players require to pull a flag off the person with the ball rather than tackling their challenger to the ground.
Flag football will certainly make its Olympic debut at LA 2028 and, as African champs, both Nigerian sides have made direct credentials for next year’s Flag Football Globe Championships.
Oluwaseye Obatolu, the vice head of state of the Nigeria Football Association (Nafa), described the country’s triumphs in Egypt on Saturday as “deeply symbolic”.
“It was a minute of enormous satisfaction to be the very first [African] country, both men and women, to get approved for the World Championships,” Obatolu informed BBC Sport Africa.
“Our emphasis now is clear – we are not just participating in the World Championships, we’re going to compete. Our eyes are strongly established on Los Angeles 2028”
The first African Flag Football Champion, which was organised by the International Federation of Football (IFAF), featured an overall of 11 groups from eight nations across the continent.