Dike rejects $7,000 World Cup bonus

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.

Meanwhile, the head of the Nigeria Women League board Dilichukwu Onyedinma has said the player
deserves a national award for her patriotic act.

The Women’s league boss told Football live, a programme on Brila FM , that what Dike did was worth emulating by other players in the country.

Can we say this true say this true patriotism or she has hidden agenda?

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