Nigerian Referee, Madu, Passes Fitness Test, Set for Action in Japan

The Nigeria Referees Association (NRA), is excited that one of the country’s

top FIFA-badged female referee, Patience Ndidiamaka Madu, has passed the fitness test and has been selected as part of the match officials to handle the football events of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Spokesman of the NRA, Kelechi Mejuobi, confirmed yesterday that Madu who is from the Enugu State Council of the referees body kept hopes alive on Sunday 18 July 2021 morning in Tokyo Japan, as she passed all the pre-Games FIFA physical fitness tests they were exposed to.

Madu had on arrival in Tokyo last Wednesday tested negative to COVID-19 at the port of entry and again was medically approved to participate in the fitness tests two days later.

“The technical preparations had been quite intensive both in the theoretical as well as in the integrated components. She came out in Flying colours,” observed the NRA spokesman yesterday.

Madu is one of the FIFA badged referees from Africa selected to fill the continent’s slot in the officiating crew for the football events.

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