By Prompt News
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau
After one week and two days of training camp in Mohammedia, Nigeria’s Super Falcons will depart their Novotel Mohamedia temporary abode for the bustling City of Casablanca, venue of their three group matches.
Prompt News exclusively gathered that the 24-player roster, technical crew led by the head coach Justine Madugu, and the backroom staff will leave Novotel Mohamedia after breakfast today with Team Nigeria bus for the 26.4 kilometre distance which will last less than one hour.
While in Mohamedia, the Super Falcons took on Ghana’s Black Queens in an international friendly match played at Lanoria Complex in Benslimane which they won 3-1 with Asisat Oshoala, Chinwendu Ihezuo, and captain Rasheedat Ajibade being on target.
The nine-time African champions also played a gutsy game to hold their Portuguese counterparts to a scoreless draw in another friendly at Lisbon’s Estádio José Gomes on last Monday.
Nigeria’s first match of the 13th Africa Cup of Nations finals will be against Tunisia’s senior women national team at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Sunday, 6th July, before other games against Botswana and Algeria in the group phase.
Nigeria has never failed to reach the last four at the Women Africa Cup of Nations, since it was launched as the African Women Championship in 1998. Winners in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2018, the Falcons made the last four in 2008, 2012 and 2022.
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