Nigerians Celebrate as ‘‘Super Falcons’’ returns to the country from Turkey where they took part in and succeeded in the 2021 Turkey Women’s Invitational Tournament.
The team left for Nigeria while the foreign players and Coach Randy Waldrum departed for their various destinations from Turkey
The Super Falcons knocked down Equatorial Guinea 9-0 in the finals, the African Queens also defeated CSKA Moscow Ladies 1-0 same scoreline was recorded in their second match against Uzbekistan.
It was the first debut outing for coach Randy Waldrum.
The team will prepare for the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations, AWCON to be hosted by Morocco.
A total of 36 women’s national teams have reached the qualifying rounds in 2020 before the competition was cancelled by the Confederation of Africa Football, CAF due to Covid-19.
All qualifying games, initially organized to be played in April and June 2020, were suspended until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic before the tournament was cancelled.
CAF announced Morocco as the host country for the 2022 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations, in January after Congo which was due to welcome the competition in 2020 pulled out in July 2019, leaving the event without a host before the event was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic a year later.
Before the cancellation, CAF had made a positive step with the expansion of the African Women’s Cup of Nations from eight to 12 teams, which was the first change to the format after 11 editions.
A total of 11 Nations will pick the qualifying ticket along with the host nation, Morocco to be part of the tournament which will hold later next year.