Super Falcons player announces her retirement from football

Super Falcons defender Onome Ebi has announced her status from shot aft her singular vocation astatine some nine and state level.

She announced the extremity of her 20-year-long vocation with the nationalist team, earning 109 caps, the astir by immoderate Nigerian pistillate player, and winning 4 African Women’s Championship titles. She besides made past successful 2023 arsenic the archetypal African footballer, antheral oregon female, to play successful six FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments.

She said,

"Today, I officially discontinue from nonrecreational football. The travel has been filled with challenges, victories, and lessons that shaped maine into who I americium today. Though I bent up my boots, my intent successful the crippled continues to springiness back, to guide, and to beryllium a dependable for players..On behalf of each subordinate of the Super Falcons, we widen our deepest gratitude to you, Captain Onome Ebi, for your bonzer work and enactment implicit the past 2 decades. Your 4 WAFCON titles, and historical six FIFA Women’s World Cup appearances person made you a beacon of excellence for our team."

The Super Falcons appreciated Onome Ebi done their skipper Rasheedat Ajibade.

The statement,

On behalf of each subordinate of the Super Falcons, we widen our deepest gratitude to you, Captain Onome Ebi, for your bonzer work and enactment implicit the past 2 decades. Your 4 WAFCON titles, and historical six FIFA Women’s World Cup appearances person made you a beacon of excellence for our team. You person been much than a captain. You’ve been a trailblazer who paved the mode for this procreation of players. Your resilience has inspired america to propulsion beyond limits and judge successful our imaginable to proceed to marque history. As you discontinue from nonrecreational football, we observe your monumental bequest and privation you boundless occurrence successful your adjacent chapter. Your committedness to mentor and uplift young African footballers ensures your interaction volition echo for generations. Thank you, Onome, for being our hero. Cheers to a bequest that volition ne'er fade!"

Ebi's vocation has taken her crossed clubs successful Sweden, Turkey, Belarus, and China, wherever she earned a estimation for strength, consistency, and leadership.She played a cardinal relation successful Nigeria’s dominance astatine the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations, winning aggregate titles with the team. Beyond her antiaircraft skills, her longevity and professionalism person made her a relation exemplary for younger players, cementing her bequest arsenic a trailblazer successful women’s football.

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