Stella Godwin, a Denmark-based player, who was said to be plagued by a leg injury. She scored Nigeria's only goal against the Liberian team when both met in Monrovia last week.

     A TOTAL of 34 players are now battling for shirts at the Metro Hotel, Lagos, camp of the female U-20 national team, the Falconets.

This is sequel to the recent invitation extended to about 15 players to be part of the camp preparatory to the team's return leg encounter with their Liberian counterparts.

The invitation extended to the new girls is coming on the heels of allegations of biased team selection leveled against the technical crew. They have, however, denied the allegations.

At the camp, The Guardian learnt that the Coach Emmanuel Tetteh-led crew was constrained to invite about 15 new players to camp to replace those that had been decamped for alleged non-performance and age discrepancies.

Prominent among those dropped is Stella Godwin, a Denmark-based player, who was said to be plagued by a leg injury. She scored Nigeria's only goal against the Liberian team when both met in Monrovia last week.

Godwin was reportedly not in her best form in the few matches she had played so far owing to the injury.

This development, perhaps, led to her inability to find the back of the opponents' net, especially in the 5-0 drubbing of Kenya in Ijebu-Ode.

The team's goal tender, who is with the Pelican Stars FC of Calabar, was amongst the players that were given the marching order from camp.

The winner of the Nigeria/Liberia encounter, which comes up next weekend, will grab one of Africa's two tickets to the FIFA women U-20 World Cup in Russia later this year.

However, reacting to allegations of money exchanging hands between players and the technical crew, one of the team's assistant coaches, Eucharia Uche-Obiajunwa, described it as false.