Nigeria’s Falconets are in Cameroon, where they are to battle the Central Africa Republic, CAR in the qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup finals.
Head Coach of the team Christopher Danjuma named 23 players after several weeks of camping in Abuja for the match scheduled for Saturday, September 26, in the City of Douala.
The Confederation of African Football, CAF has not approved any stadium facility in the Central African Republic as being good enough to host an international match, this has forced the country’s national teams to adopt other nations as ‘home ground’.
Falconets have played in every edition of the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup since the competition was launched as an Under- 19 tournament in Canada in 2022, winning the silver medals in 2010 in Germany and in 2014 in Canada, and were semi-finalists in 2012 in Japan.
The girls from the Central African Republic reached this stage of the qualifiers after Equatorial Guinea’s Under-20 girls withdrew from their preliminary fixture slated for last month.
