Oklahoma State Football team forward
Courtney Dike has rejected the $7000 paid to her by the Nigeria Football
Federation for participating at 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in
Canada saying the honour of playing for the country was enough reward
for her.
The 19-year-old, who is the
younger sister of Super Eagles forward Bright Dike, represented the
country at the competition where she scored the fastest goal in the
tournament’s history.
NFF Head of Competition Sanusi Mohammed told Sports Radio, Brila FM, that the player rejected the outstanding allowances accrued to her for representing the country at the 10-day tournament.
Sanusi
told Brila FM, “When we called her mother to confirm the delivery of
the allowances, she declined it and insisted that the opportunity of
playing for Nigeria was all the reward the family needed.”
Dike’s
elder brother, Bright, featured for Nigeria at the 2013 Confederations
Cup in Brazil but missed the 2014 World Cup by a foot injury which
side-lined him for four months.(PUNCH)
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