Nigeria, Jan. 9 -- The world football governing body, FIFA, has released the list of match officials to take different roles at the forthcoming Women's World Cup slated to hold from 20 July to 20 August in Australia and New Zealand.

Unfortunately, no Nigerian was considered good enough to take up any of the available roles.

While Nigeria is missing from the list, officials from Togo, Kenya, South Africa, Cameroon, Zambia and Morocco are on the FIFA list made public on Monday.

For the referees' list that has 33 individuals selected, three of them are from Africa.

They are Rwanda referee who officiated at the men's AFCON, Salima Mukansanga, Amedome Vicentia from Togo, Karboubi Bouchra from Morocco and South Africa's Makalima Akhona.

Al...