Afrigather The top coach of Nigeria’s U20 ladies’s staff the Falconets, Christopher Danjuma, has referred to as 30 Falconets for subsequent month’s 2024 FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup qualifying match towards the U20 women of Tanzania.
Following the withdrawal of Mauritius from the second-round match with Nigeria, the 2022 World Cup quarter-finalists drew a bye to the third spherical, the place Tanzania await, with the primary leg away in Dar es Salaam on a date inside tenth – twelfth November and the return leg in Abuja on a date inside seventeenth – nineteenth November.
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Danjuma picked a couple of of his World Cup quarter-finalists from Costa Rica final yr and a formidable quantity from the Flamingos squad that received the bronze medals on the FIFA U17 Girls’s World Cup in India a yr in the past.
The invited gamers have been instructed to report on the Chida Lodge in Utako, Abuja on Sunday, October 22.
World football-governing physique, FIFA has elevated the variety of finalists for subsequent yr’s FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup ultimate event in Colombia to 24, from the 16 that participated in Costa Rica, and in addition elevated the variety of Africa’s flag bearers to 4.
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Because of this after the Tanzania fixture, the Falconets can have one spherical to go earlier than qualification for the large celebration in Colombia in September 2024.
INVITED PLAYERS:
Goalkeepers: Linda Jiwuaku (Bayelsa Queens); Religion Omilana (Naija Ratels); Anderlin Mgbechi (Delta Queens); Shukurat Bakare (Nasarawa Amazons)
Defenders: Jumoke Alani (Edo Queens); Oluwabunmi Semilore (Naija Ratels); Oluchi Ohaegbunam (Nasarawa Amazons); Tumininu Adeshina (Naija Ratels); Shukurat Oladipo (FC Robo Queens); Consolation Folorunsho (Edo Queens); Monica Elejo (Nasarawa Amazons); Alake Kasali (Bayelsa Queens)
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Midfielders: Taiwo Afolabi (Delta Queens); Chinyere Kalu (Nasarawa Amazons); Vera Samuel (Delta Queens); Shukurat Sobowale (Nasarawa Amazons); Esther Inyang (Delta Queens); Aminat Folorunsho (Rivers Angels); Gloria Evans (FCT Academy); Chidera Okenwa (Delta Queens)
Forwards: Chiamaka Okwuchukwu (Rivers Angels); Chinasa Ogor (Delta Queens); Opeyemi Ajakaye (FC Robo Queens); Adaobi Okoh (Remo Queens); Chioma Olise (Edo Queens); Chisom China (Bayelsa Queens); Lydia Joshua (Heartland Queens); Delight Isaac (Dannz Girls); Jenat Akekoromowei (Asisat Academy); Yina Adoo (Nasarawa Amazons).
