The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigerian side, in spite of their superiority in experience, failed to translate that into dominance.
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A weekend of South African diet continues on Sunday as eight-time champions and Cup holders, Super Falcons, clash with the Banyana Banyana of South Africa in the opening match of Group B of the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations.
Champions Nigeria flew into Ghana’s capital city, Accra, on Wednesday on their way to Cape Coast for Group B attrition of the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations.
Ottache won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2004 and represented the country at both the Olympic games and the Africa Games in the same year.
The Falcons have now spent six days at the world-renowned football facility, Sol Beni Sports Centre (owned by ASEC Mimosas Football Club) in Abidjan, following a three-week preparatory programme at the Jubilee Chalets and Resort in Epe, Lagos State.
Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has released a list of 21 players who will fly Nigeria’s flag at the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals in Ghana.
Cup holders, Super Falcons of Nigeria, will spend eight days at a training camp in Abidjan to perfect tactics and strategy for the defence of their continental title before arriving in Ghana for the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals.
Overseas-based professionals invited by Super Falcons’ Head Coach Thomas Dennerby for next month’s 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals in Ghana have been swarming into the team camp at the Jubilee Chalets and Resort, Epe in Lagos State.
The Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, will on Thursday test strength against Dominion Hotspur FC, a boys’ team based in Lagos, in its first friendly match ahead of next month’s 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations.
The Swede, who graciously allowed the players to feature for their respective clubs in the Nigeria Women’s Football League at the weekend, recalled a handful of those he feels can give the invited overseas-based professional players good fight for places in the final squad
Super Falcons’ coach, Thomas Dennerby, is confident that Nigeria will come unscathed from the pool and reach the semifinals of African Women’s Cup of Nations.
Head Coach of Nigeria’s Senior Women National Team, Thomas Dennerby, has invited 45 players for the first phase of camping of the team ahead of November’s Africa Cup of Nations holding in Ghana.
Nigeria’s female football national team, the Super Falcons, will open camp on Monday to commence preparations for the 2018 African Women’s Cup of Nations in Ghana.
The Nigeria Football Federation has ordered Super Falcons’ coach, Thomas Dennerby, to submit a comprehensive training programme ahead of the women African Cup of Nations slated to hold later this year.
The President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ambassador Chris Giwa, has approved the appointment of Deputy Editor, Sportinglife Newspapers, Ejiro Baba-Femi, as media officer of Super Falcons.
Izilein stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria while reacting to the match played on Saturday night.
The visitors strung passes together brilliantly in the midfield but could not get past the experienced Nigerian rear wall of Faith Michael, Ngozi Ebere, Osinachi Ohale and Skipper Onome Ebi
Amarachi Okoronkwo’s long range strike was the difference between both teams at the Independence Stadium in Bakau on Wednesday, meaning the eight-time champions will not be under intense pressure at the Agege Stadium in Lagos.
Amarachi Okoronkwo’s long range shot 19 minutes into the game separated both sides in the first leg encounter at the Independence Stadium, Bakau.
The Super Falcons are due to play their Gambian counterpart for a ticket to the finals of the African Women Nations Cup.