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Former Tremendous Eagles and Borussia Dortmund ahead, Victor Ikpeba Nosa, has backed the Tremendous Falcons of Nigeria to trounce Spain, Japan, and Brazil and qualify for the latter levels of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Soccernet.ng experiences.
Randy Waldrum’s workforce noticed out a 1-0 dwelling victory in Pretoria, edging South Africa to safe a summer season Olympic spot in France. Nevertheless, the 11-AWCON champions have been drawn into Group C of the competitors the place they’ll tackle Spain, Brazil and Spain.
The American supervisor described the group because the ‘group of loss of life, drawing the same comparability with the group during which they have been positioned within the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, the place they scathed by way of the group unbeaten.
The Tremendous Falcons performed goalless attracts towards Canada and the Republic of Eire, earlier than claiming a 3-2 victory over Sam Kerr’s Australia. They nonetheless acquired knocked out on penalties by England within the subsequent spherical.
Ikpeba who performed 31 video games for Nigeria, has inspired the Tremendous Falcons to defy the percentages in Paris, daring them to dream of glory after returning to the Olympics for the primary time since 2008.
“Tremendous Falcons will get out of this ‘Group of Demise’. No person additionally gave us an opportunity after we have been drawn right into a tough-looking group on the 1996 Olympics that had Brazil, Japan and Hungary, however we went on to make historical past by successful the primary Olympics Gold for Africa. The Falcons want early preparation, presumably in France for 2, or three weeks, we did the identical in 1996, after we skilled for some weeks within the USA, the sooner they put together, the higher for the workforce,” the 1994 AFCON winner stated in quotes revealed by Daily Post.
The 2024 Paris Olympics will kick off on July 24 with soccer and rugby occasions. Opening ceremonies are scheduled to happen two days later.
