2024 FIFA U20WWC Qualifier: Christopher Danjuma names squad for Tanzania

Head Coach, Christopher Musa Danjuma has known as up goalkeepers Religion Omilana and Linda Jiwuaku, defenders Jumoke Alani and Tumininu Adeshina, midfielders Taiwo Afolabi, Chinyere Kalu and Chidera Okenwa, and forwards Chiamaka Okwuchukwu, Yina Adoo and Opeyemi Ajakaye amongst a roster of 30 Falconets for subsequent month’s 2024 FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup qualifying fixture in opposition to the U20 women of Tanzania.

Following the withdrawal of Mauritius from the second-round attrition with Nigeria, the 2022 World Cup quarter-finalists drew a bye to the third spherical, the place Tanzania await, with the primary leg away in Dar es Salaam on a date inside tenth – twelfth November and the return leg in Abuja on a date inside seventeenth – nineteenth November.

Danjuma has picked a number of of his World Cup quarter-finalists from Costa Rica final yr, and a powerful quantity from the Flamingos squad that received the bronze medals on the FIFA U17 Girls’s World Cup in India a yr in the past.

The invited gamers have been instructed to report on the Chida Resort in Utako, Abuja on Sunday, twenty second October.

World football-governing physique, FIFA has elevated the variety of finalists for subsequent yr’s FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup remaining event in Colombia to 24, from the 16 that participated in Costa Rica, and in addition elevated the variety of Africa’s flag bearers to 4.

Which means after the Tanzania fixture, the Falconets could have one spherical to go earlier than qualification for the massive houseparty in Colombia in September 2024.

ALL THE INVITED PLAYERS:

Goalkeepers: Linda Jiwuaku (Bayelsa Queens); Religion Omilana (Naija Ratels); Anderlin Mgbechi (Delta Queens); Shukurat Bakare (Nasarawa Amazons)

Defenders: Jumoke Alani (Edo Queens); Oluwabunmi Semilore (Naija Ratels); Oluchi Ohaegbunam (Nasarawa Amazons); Tumininu Adeshina (Naija Ratels); Shukurat Oladipo (FC Robo Queens); Consolation Folorunsho (Edo Queens); Monica Elejo (Nasarawa Amazons); Alake Kasali (Bayelsa Queens)

Midfielders: Taiwo Afolabi (Delta Queens); Chinyere Kalu (Nasarawa Amazons); Vera Samuel (Delta Queens); Shukurat Sobowale (Nasarawa Amazons); Esther Inyang (Delta Queens); Aminat Folorunsho (Rivers Angels); Gloria Evans (FCT Academy); Chidera Okenwa (Delta Queens)

Forwards: Chiamaka Okwuchukwu (Rivers Angels); Chinasa Ogor (Delta Queens); Opeyemi Ajakaye (FC Robo Queens); Adaobi Okoh (Remo Queens); Chioma Olise (Edo Queens); Chisom China (Bayelsa Queens); Lydia Joshua (Heartland Queens); Delight Isaac (Dannz Girls); Jenat Akekoromowei (Asisat Academy); Yina Adoo (Nasarawa Amazons)

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