“We will give it our best shot and see how it goes. It is always good to start well at home and play the return leg with different strategies and mindset,” said the coach
Okon, who issued a list of players for the last lap of preparation last week, said the goal is to qualify and dethrone Equatorial Guinea in Namibia.
To set the tone for the tie, Falcons beat the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in Abuja recently by a lone goal and that result earned them marvelous public confidence when it is recalled that it was the same Cameroonians that stopped Nigeria from being part of the football event of the London 2012 women Olympics that soiled Nigeria’s record of having missed an out of the Olympics once since the Sydney 2000 when the event took off.
The Super Falcons list is a mixture of home and foreign based players, including the experienced ones from past international competitions. They will be expected to beat Rwanda and widely predicted to challenge for the trophy against countries like 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 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 remains 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
Smart 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.
The Super Falcons will visit Rwanda for the first leg of the qualifiers on May 24. The second leg will hold in Nigeria between the weekend of June 6 and June 8.
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