Asisat Oshoala has lastly joined the Tremendous Falcons camp as Nigeria put together to commerce tackles with South Africa on the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Friday, Soccernet.ng studies.
Each groups are battling to safe one of many tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, with the winner of this two-legged tie becoming a member of Brazil, Japan, and world champions Spain in Group C within the eight-team match in Paris in July and August.
Nigeria’s preparation for this significant decider has been removed from superb, with solely three gamers, together with captain Rasheedat Ajibade, accessible when the staff’s camp opened on Monday. South Africa’s Banyana Banyana have been in Nigeria since Sunday, March thirty first.
By Wednesday, solely 19 gamers had been accessible for coach Randy Waldrum to work with, following the arrival of Ifeoma Onumonu. Nonetheless, the staff needed to forfeit their scheduled evening training.
Nevertheless, coach Waldrum can be delighted to lastly have all of the 22 gamers he invited at his disposal following the arrival of Oshoala and two others early on Thursday morning.
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The Bay FC striker arrived in camp alongside thrilling ahead Esther Okoronkwo and Chinwendu Ihezuo.
Six-time CAF Africa Ladies’s Participant of the 12 months Oshoala can be one of many key gamers the Tremendous Falcons can be relying on to wreck the South Africans on Friday.
Esther Okoronkwo, who scored Nigeria’s solely aim within the mixture victory over Cameroon within the final spherical, will even look to make an influence towards the Banyana.
Nigeria, a continuing function on the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, haven’t been to the Olympics since 2008, lacking the London 2012, Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2020.
NB: Can the Tremendous Falcons beat South Africa in Abuja regardless of their less-than-ideal preparations? League your feedback beneath.
