The NFF supremo spoke on Saturday night, hours after the African champions were drawn in the same group with United States of America, Australia and Sweden at the finals taking place from June 6 to July 5, 2015 across six Canadian cities
Browsing: Super Falcons
The Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, had told the media shortly after the ladies lifted the trophy that they would be treated with a grand reception on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting
The Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo, made the disclosure
Okon, who is also the head coach of Rivers Angels FC of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, led the Super Falcons to emerge champions for the seventh time at the African Women Championship in Namibia on Saturday evening
Nigeria’s Francesca Ordega was also named Player of the final match against the Les Lionesses of Cameroon
Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast will represent Africa at the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup in Canada
Nigeria has qualified for the World Cup on seven occasions, while they have missed only two since the tournament’s inception
Goalkeeper, Ibubeleye Whyte, also got the nod of Head Coach, Okon Edwin, to man the goal, while skipper Evelyn Nwabuoku, Josephine Chukwunonye, Osinachi Ohale and Gloria Ofoegbu will take charge in the defence
The Edwin Okon girls opened scoring inside the opening five minutes, courtesy of Ngozi Okobi, after she connected a supply from Desire Oparanozie
The Confederation of African Football is using the tournament in southern Africa to pick the continent’s representatives to next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Canada, with the top three teams at the end of the championship due to fly Africa’s flag at the global event
Ofuegbu said: “Falcons have really proved themselves to be a good side and I am happy that they have saved our image in the world
The administrative crisis wrecking the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), seems to have taken its toll as cash crush seems to have hit the football house, resulting in the Super Falcons risking ejection from their hotel camp.
Speaking shortly after he visited the competition venue, Okon stated that the future of female football development in Nigeria is bright with the calibre of players he saw at the competition and commended Airtel for assisting in unearthing future stars from the grassroots through the initiative
The national under-20 men’s football team qualified on a 6-1 aggregate, after winning the first leg match two weeks earlier 2-0 in Dar es Salaam
Falcons’ coach, Edwin Okon, informed that the screening will be elimination by substitution to get the required and needed ones from a pool 34 invited players for the camp
He however said all machinery had been put in motion for the naming of a substantive coach for the senior national women football team after the friendly matches
With more than 100 appearances for the Nigeria women’s national football, the six-time African Women Championship winner believes that her wealth of experience in the game will go along way in assisting the national Under 20 team surpass its previous achievements on the continent and at the global level
The Bayana Bayana defeated hard fighting Super Falcons by a lone goal in their encounter in the competition holding in Equitorial Guinea
The Cup holders are billed to clash with the Banyana Banyana on Wednesday in the second semi final billed for Bata while host, Equatorial Guinea, will entertain Cameroon’s Lionesses at the Malabo Stadium in the first semi final on the same day
Like it was in the first group match, which the Falcons won 2-1 against Cameroon, the team, tutored by Coach Kadiri Ikhana, struggled in the opening minutes of the match