Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSources close to FIFA has revealed to PREMIUM TIMES that officials from the\nworld body are already planning an inspection exercise to Nigeria to ascertain\nif the country would be fit to host the second biggest women football event on\nthe FIFA calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOfficials from Zurich are expected in August for a four-day inspection tour\nand some of what they would be looking out for during the planned visit is what\nNigeria can offer in terms of infrastructure\/operations, security, medical and\nthe likes,\u201d a source in the know of happenings in FIFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was also gathered that the world football governing is planning to spend\nas much as $4m on the event which effectively takes off a huge chunk of the\nfinancial burden from Nigeria, if finally given the hosting rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The news came a day after NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, completed his two-year tenure as 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football. CAF President, who is facing corruption charges, failed to recommend Mr. Pinnick for another term of office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But despite stepping down as CAF\u2019s first vice president, Mr Pinnick remains\na strong member of the CAF exco. He also remains a member of the organising\ncommittee for FIFA competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup is an international association football\ntournament, organised by FIFA for national teams of women under the age of 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tournament is held in even-numbered years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was first conducted in 2002 as the FIFA U-19 Women\u2019s World Championship\nwith an upper age limit of 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2006, the age limit was raised to the current 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No African country has ever hosted the event and Nigeria is looking set to\nbe the first, having been pencilled down by FIFA to stage the 10th edition of\nthe biennial football event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interestingly, Nigeria has made it to the final of the FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s\nWorld Cup on two occasions in 2010 and 2014 but was defeated by Germany both\ntimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last FIFA event held in Nigeria was the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, which\nwas the thirteenth edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup:<\/strong>
It is an international association football tournament.It is organized by FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), for national teams of women under the age of 20. The tournament is held in even-numbered years.It was first conducted in 2002 in Canada.
France hosted the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women\u2019s World Cup (9th edition).
Japan emerged as a champion.
About Nigeria<\/strong>
Capital: Abuja
Currency: Nigerian naira
President: Muhammadu Buhari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA considering a bid from\u00a0Nigeria for the hosting rights of the U20 Women’s World Cup for 2020.The breakthrough came following months of pressure on FIFA by the Nigerian Football Federation whose president is said to be working hard to bring as many FIFA and CAF competitions to the country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Sources […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}