Super Falcons land in Casablanca to fight for 10th crown

The Natty Falcons beget landed on the battleground, Morocco, earlier than the kickoff of next month’s African Women folks’s Championship, where the group would be pursuing a historic tenth title.

The Natty Falcons’ delegation arrived in Morocco’s economic capital, Casablanca, final evening from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon.

The Nigerians spent some time in Portugal, where they played a goalless plot with the European country on Monday.

The Nigerian delegation comprising 22 gamers and group officers used to be joined by China-basically basically basically based ahead Folashade Ijamilusi and USA-basically basically basically based Asisat Oshoala, who had been already in Morocco’s economic capital.

The 9-time African champions played a gutsy recreation to take their Portuguese counterparts to a scoreless plot at Lisbon’s Estádio José Gomes with goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, defender Shukurat Oladipo, and dilapidated ahead Francisca Ordega each and each having a recreation to be conscious.

Nigeria’s first match of the thirteenth Africa Cup of Countries finals shall be towards Tunisia’s senior girls’s nationwide group on the Larbi Zaouli Stadium, in Casablanca on Sunday, July 6, outdated to fully different games towards Botswana and Algeria in the group segment.

The Natty Falcons beget never did no longer set the final four on the Women folks’s Africa Cup of Countries, because it used to be launched as the African Women folks’s Championship in 1998. Winners in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018, the Falcons made the final four in 2008, 2012 and 2022.