By Francis Ajuonuma with agency reports
Nigerian female basketball players, D’Tigress have debunked the statement by Australian player, Liz Cambage that she never disparaged Nigerian players racially during a warm-up game in 2021.
The incident happened in a friendly game between D’Tigress and their Australian counterparts held in Australia as preparations for the Opals’ 2021 Olympic campaign.
Speaking in an interview on social media, the Australian, who was caught in a video elbowing and hitting Nigerian players leading to a fracas during the international friendly will rather accuse the Nigerians of being the oppressors and also alleged that she was being lured by Nigerian officials to switch allegiance to the D’Tigress
A key member of the Nigerian team, Promise Amukamara on Twitter said, “She called us Monkeys and told us to go back to our country. Yes she said that!” wrote Amukamara.
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“Literally everyone from both teams have the same story BUT her, so y’all do the math! and the only person she has been in “cahoots” was the former coach of our National team and he’s no longer the coach, so there’s that!”
Sarah Ogoke a key player as D’Tigress beat Senegal to win the 2023 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket also added, “We are not recruiting you and you definitely spewed racist profanities against us during our scrimmage”.
There are claims that the negotiations for Cambage to switch were made by the former coach but have been shit down since the appointment of Rena Wakama.
The saga involving Cambage is not expected to end soon as many stakeholders are expected to give their opinion going forward.
