AWC:Falcons primed to qualify, says Okon

Super Falcons of Nigeria handler, Edwin Okon believes Nigeria can seal the African Women Championship qualifier against Rwanda by grabbing a win in the first leg tie and then go for consolidation in the in the return. We will give it our best shot and see how it goes. It is always good to start well at home and ply the return with different strategy and mindset Okon, who issued a list of players for the last lap of preparation past week, said the goal is to qualify and dethrone Equatorial Guinea in Namibia. To get set for the tie, Falcon beat the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in Abuja recently by a lone goal and that result earned marvelous public confidence when it is recalled that fact it was the Cameroon team that stopped Nigeria from being part of London2012 women Olympic Football. that stunted Nigeria’s record as having for once missed out action in the Olympics since the Sydney 2000 when the event took off. The Super Falcons list is a mixture of home and foreign based players, including those packed full of experience from past international competitions and rookies. They will be expected to beat Rwanda and widely predicted to challenge for the trophy against countries as Ghana, South Africa and holders Equatorial Guinea... “I can tell you that we’re moving forward. We want to be positive and we want to unify the group as best as we can in that the time we have plus the fact that some of the players have been in competitions together.” Okon made it clear that preparation has been fairly straightforward, given the series of activity by home based players, but that it remained a huge challenge to succeed given the limited time left for players to blend. “All the same we will be ready and our target is to qualify and play our part well so as to emerge victorious in Namibia Smarth Ebhodaghe, a follower of female football agreed to this fact but the team must “But they should never take anything for granted because these days one can never tell if the fowl has grown some teeth overnight to bite you badly,” he stated.