Babalola Tomiwa
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will face Canada and New Zealand in a build up to the 2015 Fifa Women World Cup in Canada.
The Super Falcons of Nigeria will face Canada and New Zealand in a build up to the 2015 Fifa Women World Cup in Canada.
The country's senior women national team won their seventh African Women Championship last year and automatically qualified for the FIFA women's world cup, where they will hope to surpass their quarter-finals record in their first appearance.
The chairperson of the Nigeria Women League, Dilichukwu Onyedinma hinted that the Falcons will begin preparations for their qualifiers for the 2015 All African Games, 2016 Olympics and World Cup in Abuja next week against earlier fixed Thursday, February 12.
Onyedinma, who is also an executive member of NFF said the nation's football body lately readjusted its plans for Super Falcons following the shift in country's general elections by six weeks to March 28.
“The NFF has been able to arrange two grade A friendly matches for Super Falcons to tune up for the World Cup. These games which we hope will be good test for our girls will be against world cup host Canada and New Zealand,” Onyedinma.
"It was initial original plan was to open the camp after the February 14 election that has now been postponed so the federation quickly re-adjusted the Falcons program to start next week," she concluded.
The chairperson of the Nigeria Women League, Dilichukwu Onyedinma hinted that the Falcons will begin preparations for their qualifiers for the 2015 All African Games, 2016 Olympics and World Cup in Abuja next week against earlier fixed Thursday, February 12.
Onyedinma, who is also an executive member of NFF said the nation's football body lately readjusted its plans for Super Falcons following the shift in country's general elections by six weeks to March 28.
“The NFF has been able to arrange two grade A friendly matches for Super Falcons to tune up for the World Cup. These games which we hope will be good test for our girls will be against world cup host Canada and New Zealand,” Onyedinma.
"It was initial original plan was to open the camp after the February 14 election that has now been postponed so the federation quickly re-adjusted the Falcons program to start next week," she concluded.
In a related development, Dr Sanusi Mohammed, who is currently in Niamey with the country's U17 male national team for their Niger 2015 African U17 Championship campaign, confirmed the arranged grade A tune-up games for the Super Falcons.
"The two friendly matches have been secured for the team, but it's not now, but later close to the World Cup," Mohammed told Goal.
The Super Falcons will face the winner of the tie between Mali and Gabon in the All African Games qualifiers. The first leg will be an away tie in the weekend of March 20 – 22, 2015 with Nigeria hosting the second leg between April 10 – 12, 2015.
For the Olympic qualifier, Nigeria will tackle Mali with the first leg match to be played at home on May 23 while the second leg holds a week later in Bamako.
Edwin Okon's ladies have been paired with former champions USA, Sweden and Australia in widely touted Group of Death - D at the upcoming international showpiece in Canada which holds from June 5 to July 6.
Super Falcons set for Canada and New Zealand friendlies
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