Super Falcons defender, Onome Ebi, has revealed that players and officials of the team were yet to fully recover from their failure to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
She stated this as the nine-time African champions were preparing to round up a 9-day training camp in Abuja. The training camp that commenced on Monday last week would come to an end today.
It will be recalled the Falcons missed out at London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games, before crashing out in the race to Tokyo 2020, following a 1-1 draw with visiting Cote d’Ivoire
“I can tell you that we still nurse the pain of missing out on the Tokyo Olympics as a result of the loss to Cote d’Ivoire in the qualifying series. This time, we will repay them in their own coins. Personally, I want to play in the Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cup, and I know it is the same for my team mates.
“We will look to have periodic camping like this in order to be able to put forward the best of Nigeria women players for matches and championships at any time,” she said.
Meanwhile, Head coach, Randy Waldrum has commended the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for its continued total support for the team.
“I am very delighted with the support the Federation has always given to the team; this has helped our work. I am happy we had this training camp as we were able to see the home-based players and the overseas-based, and everyone bonded very well. It has been a marvelous experience and the joy among the players is palpable,” he said.
The Super Falcons will confront the Ivorians in a home-and-away final elimination fixture for the 12th Women AFCON slated for Morocco in the summer of next year.
Both legs of the fixture will take place in the month of February. It is at the Women AFCON in Morocco that Africa’s flag bearers at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand would emerge.
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