Morocco 2024: Madugu picks star-studded 24-player squad for Super Falcons
Immense Falcons Head Coach, Justine Madugu, on Friday, picked a convincing 24-player squad for Nigeria’s campaign on the thirteenth Girls’s Africa Cup of International locations (WAFCON), scheduled to happen from July fifth to twenty sixth in Morocco.
Main the fee is crew captain Rasheedat Ajibade, alongside key avid gamers including high-rated goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, skilled ahead Francisca Ordega, and five-time CAF Girls’s Participant of the Year, Asisat Oshoala.
A wholesome share of the squad began practicing sessions in the Federal Capital, Abuja, on Thursday and will even educate on Friday and Saturday, sooner than departing for the closing practicing camp in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sunday morning.
Madugu has also selected Saudi Arabia-basically based flamboyant defender Ashleigh Plumptre, US-basically based fan favourite Michelle Alozie, outmoded defender Osinachi Ohale, and midfielders Deborah Abiodun, Jennifer Echegini, and Christy Ucheibe.
Home-basically based goalkeeper Rachael Unachukwu and defenders Sikiratu Isah and Miracle Usani also assemble the decrease, while midfield lynchpin Halimatu Ayinde makes a return to the fold.
Already, the Nigeria Soccer Federation has sealed kindly matches for the crew with the senior females’s nationwide teams of Portugal and Ghana, to save apart them in a aggressive mood sooner than their neighborhood B encounters towards Tunisia, Botswana and Algeria on the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca. The Falcons will face their Portuguese counterparts in Lisbon on Monday, 23rd June, after which procure on the Sunless Queens of Ghana in Morocco on Sunday, 29th June.
Nigeria’s Remaining 24-Participant Squad for WAFCON 2024: Goalkeepers: Chiamaka Nnadozie (correct done contract with Paris FC, France); Tochukwu Oluehi (Shualat Alsharqia FC, Saudi Arabia); Rachael Unachukwu (Nasarawa Amazons)
Defenders: Osinachi Ohale (Pachucha Membership de Futbol, Mexico); Shukurat Oladipo (AS Roma, Italy); Michelle Alozie (Houston Jog, USA); Ashleigh Plumptre (Ittihad Girls FC, Saudi Arabia); Sikiratu Isah (Nasarawa Amazons); Oluwatosin Demehin (Galatasaray Sportive, Turkey); Miracle Usani (Edo Queens)
Midfielders: Rasheedat Ajibade (correct done contract with Atletico Madrid, Spain); Halimatu Ayinde (FC Rosenburg, Sweden); Deborah Abiodun (Dallas Trinity, USA); Jennifer Echegini (Paris Saint Germain, France); Toni Payne (Everton Girls, England); Christy Ucheibe (SL Benfica, Portugal)
Forwards: Francisca Ordega (Ittihad Girls Membership, Saudi Arabia); Chinwendu Ihezuo (Pachucha Membership de Futbol, Mexico); Ifeoma Onumonu (Montpellier FC, France); Esther Okoronkwo (AFC Toronto, Canada); Omorinsola Babajide (Coasta Adeje Tenerife Egatesa, Spain); Folashade Ijamilusi (Liaoning Shenyang Shenbei Hefeng, China); Chioma Okafor (University of Connecticut, USA)
