Officials from world football ruling body, FIFA, have arrived in Nigeria with the original FIFA Women’s World Cup for a trophy tour scheduled for Thursday (today) in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
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The FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy is expected to arrive Nigeria on a tour on Thursday, Demola Olajire, Nigeria Football Federation Director of Communication said on Tuesday in Abuja.
African champions, the Super Falcons, will on Monday battle their Canadian counterparts in a friendly at the Pinatar Stadium in Murcia, Spain.
Head Coach of the Super Falcons, Thomas Dennerby, has revealed that the target for the Super Falcons at the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in France this summer is to surpass the performance of every Nigerian team that has been at the championship previously.
Super Falcons’s Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has said that the team will go to this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in France with the best legs available.
Super Falcons star, Francisca Ordega, has completed a move to Chinese Super League side, Shanghai Shenhua, after four years at United States’ National Women’s Soccer League campaigners, Washington Spirit.
World football governing body, FIFA, and its African confederation, CAF, recently at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt hosted the first Regional Integrity Workshop on the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup finals (France 2019).
The Super Falcons, African women champions, will depart Abuja for Larnaca on Sunday to take part in the annual Cyprus Women’s Cup tournament which begins on Wednesday.
African champions Nigeria are set to return to the country on Wednesday after finishing third at an invitational tournament in China as part of their preparations for this summer’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in France.
The draws were held in Paries
Nine-time African champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria, will on Saturday know their group phase opponents at next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals.
Ghana’s Black Queens are seeded in Group A with position A1, whilst Nigeria headlines Group B by virtue of being holders and the most successful team in the history of the biennial competition, having won it eight times
The qualification process begins with a preliminary round scheduled for the weekend of July 21 to 23.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the final two teams will be known at the weekend of January 26 to 28
A scarcely believable four-goal salvo inside the opening 16 minutes meant there was only ever going to be one winner to the joy of the largely pro-USA 53,341 crowd in Vancouver
The Edwin Okon girls landed in Abuja in the early hours of Saturday and were received by the Nigeria Football Federation scribe, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja
A well balanced first 45 minutes finally fell in the Americans’ favour when Wambach struck Megan Rapinoe’s corner home at the far post
The result secured second spot in Group C for the Africans behind Japan and set up a last-16 meeting with China PR
With warmer temperatures in Winnipeg than the two teams experienced on Monday, the opening stages of the Group D contest lacked any real pace or scoring opportunities
The Super Falcons, having never beaten Sweden in their three previous meetings, came out flying in the first few minutes and had the Swedes on the back foot for much of the first quarter of an hour
A statement from the team’s Media Officer, Gracious Akujobi, quoted the national senior women’s team coach as saying he was not afraid of the big names in the group