Falcons in Canada for World Cup

African champions Super Falcons will affected in Canada avant-garde of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which begins in the aforementioned country, in June.
A top official of the Nigeria Football Federation, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme,
said the alliance was putting affairs in abode to ensure that the Falcons avant-garde to the knockout stages of the antagonism for the aboriginal time in 16 years.
Speaking in Lagos on Monday during a bout of the Women’s World Cup trophy, Ikpeme said, “We are acquainted as a alliance for the ladies to do well. We do authorize for every of the World Cup but we alone accomplished the quarter-finals once.
“They are currently arena the AAG and Olympic qualifiers and we accept agreed that afore the World Cup starts in June, the Falcons will commence on a training bout of Canada. We aswell accept superior affable matches with countries who accept aswell qualified. It will accord the players a feel of what they should apprehend in the competition. We accept that this time about they can go above the accumulation stage.”
The Falcons, who accept abounding every Women’s World Cup back the antagonism began in 1991, are in a bound accumulation with backstab champions USA, Sweden and Australia but Ikpeme believes with the appropriate psychology, the Falcons can beforehand from their group.
“In accession to advancing the girls, we accept aswell apparent that the Falcons charge a sports analyst and the alliance has accustomed the application of one. It will advice in acclamation the cerebral problems of the girls because it’s the brainy apparatus of affairs that are actual important abnormally for the adolescence and the ladies. We wish to ensure that aggregate is in abode for the girls to accomplish Nigeria proud,” he added.
On the Women’s World Cup bays tour, Ikpeme said, “It’s a history-making occasion. It’s FIFA’s attitude for the World Cup to go annular all the continents and accurately the countries that able for the event.”