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The National Under-20 female team, the Falconets, will depart the country on Friday aboard Air France for Austria for a two-week training tour ahead of the FIFA Under-20 Women World Cup in France.

Since emerging from an appropriately-styled “Group of Death” in the African qualifying series, becoming the first African team to reach the finals in Russia, the Eagles have played against Argentina, Poland, Serbia, DR Congo, England and Czech Republic in friendlies, winning two, drawing one and losing three.

Earlier on Sunday, Technical Adviser Rohr dropped defender Ola Aina and midfielder Mikel Agu from the 25 men in camp, to make a final list of 23 players 24 hours ahead of FIFA’s given deadline.