The General Manager of Rivers Angels\u00a0FC, Matilda Onyiloha-Otuene has said\u00a0the team pulled out of the Flying Officers Cup tournament to focus\u00a0more on their preparations for the\u00a0CAF\u00a0 Women\u2019s Champions League coming up next month in Egypt.
Onyiloha-Otuene disclosed this to Tidesports during an interview on Friday.
According her, the team had to pull out in order to concentrate on their CAF Women\u2019s Champions League preparations and reduce the risk of having more injured players.
Mrs Onyiloha-Otuene apologised to the organisers of the Flying Officers Cup for any inconvenience this decision may have caused.
\u201cOur reason for pulling out is to fully concentrate on CAF preparations right now and avoid anything that would disintegrate the team at this stage\u201d, Onyiloha-Otuene said.
\u201cIt was our desire to participate in this year\u2019s Flying Officers Cup but due to the timing and our Continental event around the corner, we felt the need to opt out of it.
\u201cWe are very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused the organisers of the event but this was beyond our control,\u201d she added.
The reigning Nigeria Women Football League Premiership Champions will be at the inaugural CAF Women\u2019s Champions League scheduled to begin from November 5-19 this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The General Manager of Rivers Angels\u00a0FC, Matilda Onyiloha-Otuene has said\u00a0the team pulled out of the Flying Officers Cup tournament to focus\u00a0more on their preparations for the\u00a0CAF\u00a0 Women\u2019s Champions League coming up next month in Egypt.Onyiloha-Otuene disclosed this to Tidesports during an interview on Friday.According her, the team had to pull out in order to concentrate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}