Nigeria has competed at each version of the African Video games since its debut in 1965, and her athletes have gained a complete of 1326 medals.
The Nigeria Soccer Federation on Monday, February twelfth, launched an inventory of 30 gamers picked for the nation’s participation within the thirteenth version of the African Video games that will probably be held in Ghana, Soccernet.ng studies.
The launched listing consists of thirty Falconets who ply their footballing commerce in Nigeria. Twenty-nine of them already play for Skilled sides, and one performs for the distinguished Asisat Oshoala academy.
The Falconets gained a gold medal within the earlier version hosted in Rabat, Morrocco the place the present African goalkeeper of the yr, Chiamaka Nnadozie made an open spectacle of her theatrics within the penalty shoot-out as Nigeria defeated Cameroon within the finals.
The Nigerian women have additionally gained a gold medal within the soccer competitors within the 2003 and the 2007 version of The African Video games.
The chosen gamers are scheduled to reach on the coaching camp in Abuja right now to arrange for the video games that will probably be held from eighth March to twenty third March, 2024.
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Falconets’ Head Coach, Chris Musa Danjuma, who led the Nigerian women to the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals, was additionally in cost as they secured a ticket to this yr’s FIFA U-20 Ladies’s World Cup finals in Colombia.
The Falconets will sq. as much as Morocco, Senegal and Cameroon of their group conflict in Ghana as they appear to win one other gold medal.