Onome Ebi: It’s amazing to play in five World cup

Nigeria International Onome Ebi is delighted to set a record as the first African football player (man or woman) to appear in five FIFA World cup.

“Playing in my fifth World Cup is really, really amazing, and I worked hard for it,” she told FIFA.com.

“I thank God it come to pass. I would say I’m enjoying it.”

The 36-year-old defender is now looking forward to victory against Korea in their next game after losing 3-0 to Norway in the first game, the result she didn’t expect.

“I didn’t expect what happened (against Norway) but it’s football – you lose some and you win some.”

“We didn’t get the goals, so we are going to learn from what happened and work on those lessons for the second game.”

“We don’t have anything to leave behind in the Korea game. We are going all out because the loss in our first game was a very big one. We will go all out – for nothing but victory.” Ebi said.

Nigeria face Korea in a must win game on Wednesday.