{"id":2174,"date":"2019-01-10T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2019-01-10T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:31:47","slug":"super-falcons-to-play-10-matches-before-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-to-play-10-matches-before-womens-world-cup","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons to play 10 matches before Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Nigeria Football Federation has firmed up plans to provide African champions, Super Falcons, with what could turn out to be their best \u2013ever preparation for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup finals, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed the development.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Participation in the Four \u2013Nation Invitational Tournament in China, 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0January, will be followed by participation in the Cyprus Women\u2019s Cup (25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March), before planned friendly matches with Spain or Canada before a final training camp in Austria that could also take in two tune \u2013up games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On Tuesday, players and officials of the nine \u2013time African champions were at the Embassy of China in Abuja for visa processing. The team is expected to fly out of Nigeria to China on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Hosts China, Romania and Korea Republic are the other teams taking part in the four \u2013day invitational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Already, the Nigeria Football Federation has announced that the Falcons will have their final camping programme at the same Avita Hotel and Resort in Bad Tatzmannsdorf in Austria, where the Super Eagles stayed before flying to Russia to participate in last year\u2019s FIFA World Cup finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On return from the invitational tournament in China, the Falcons will begin visa processing for Cyprus, where a 12 \u2013Nation Invitational Tournament awaits between 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0February \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, North Korea, Mexico, Slovakia, South Africa and Thailand are the other nations taking part. Of the lot, Nigeria, Italy, South Africa and Thailand will be going to France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Spain (who play African team South Africa, as well as Germany and China in Group B) and Canada (who play African team Cameroon, as well as New Zealand and The Netherlands in Group E) have approached Nigeria for friendly matches. Jamaica, who play Australia, Italy and Brazil in Group C, have also written to the NFF expressing interest in playing the Super Falcons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Nigeria, the only African country to have featured in all previous editions of the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup since the competition was launched in China in 1991, will tackle host nation France, Korea Republic and Norway in Group A of this summer\u2019s finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Super Falcons will open their account in France against Norway, at the 21,000 \u2013capacity Stade Auguste Delaune in Reims on 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June, before matches against Korea Republic in Grenoble on 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June and against hosts France in Rennes on 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4222001760gmail-MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup finals will hold 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July this year, with France up against Korea Republic in the opening match at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation has firmed up plans to provide African champions, Super Falcons, with what could turn out to be their best \u2013ever preparation for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup finals, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed the development. \u00a0Participation in the Four \u2013Nation Invitational Tournament in China, 17th\u00a0\u2013 20th\u00a0January, will be followed by participation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,212],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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