Tokyo 2020: Nigeria's Madu To Officiate In Football Events

  Tokyo 2020: Nigeria's Madu To Officiate In Football Events By Sampson Adedeji Despite Nigeria Football teams missing out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, Nigeria Football will still be represented as one of the officials, BSNSports.com.ng reports. Dream Team failed to qualify from the U23 African Cup Of Nations while Super Falcons crashed out to Coted'Ivoire senior women's national team. World soccer governing body on Sunday listed Patience Ndidi Madu among Video Assistant Referees (VAR) officials that will officiate during football events. Nigeria’s Patience Ndidi Madu is one of the 35 football referees earlier invited by FIFA for the Elite Referees for competitions. The referees are drawn form three confederations of CAF, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC).