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Tremendous Falcons star Jennifer Echegini has said that the staff will carry out above expectations within the Ladies’s soccer competiton on the 2024 Paris Olympics, Soccernet.ng stories.
Nigeria have been drawn within the group of loss of life on the Paris Olympics. In Group C of the attracts, they’re pitched towards Japan, Brazil, and present world champions Spain.
In that group, the Tremendous Falcons are the least ranked staff on the FIFA rankings. Spain are primary, Japan are ranked seventh, Brazil are ninth, whereas Nigeria sit on thirty sixth.
Nevertheless, the nine-time African champions have proven that rankings don’t essentially matter. On the final FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, Nigeria have been the least ranked staff in a gaggle that had Australia, Canada, and Eire. Nonetheless, they certified from the group with out dropping a sport.
PSG’s new signing Jennifer Echegini, who was a part of that squad final 12 months is assured that the Tremendous Falcons can replicate that type of efficiency on the Olympics later this month.
Forward of the video games, the Tremendous Falcons midfielder has said that the staff has extra to supply than what folks assume.
“I really feel like as a Nigeria or another African staff, they underestimate our soccer capability and so they type of simply base us off power and pace. It’s all the time ‘oh they’re sturdy and highly effective’, however we are able to additionally play,” Echegini told beats and rhymes fc.
“I really feel like a number of instances, groups don’t count on that, and so they’ll be shocked after we begin taking part in round them. I choose in the event that they don count on it as a result of it makes issues simpler for us, however at any time when I hear folks speaking about Nigeria, it’s all the time ‘sturdy’ or ‘quick’, and I’m like, “we’re not simply that, you recognize?”
“Quite a lot of us grew up taking part in the very same approach as these England ladies or the Dutch ladies, so it’s type of humorous when folks say we’re simply pace and power. We went by the identical course of rising up,.we simply selected to symbolize the Nigerian staff.
The Tremendous Falcons opened camp final week in Seville, Spain. And coach Randy Waldrum will probably be trying to good his ways to make sure the staff performs properly within the Olympics. The Tremendous Falcons have by no means gained medals on the Olympics, however they’ll dare to dream.
