International Friendly: Super Falcons To Face Japan’s Senior Women Team In Kobe – National

9-time African champions and FIFA World Cup ever-present Nigeria will tackle the Senior Ladies Nationwide Workforce of Japan in a status worldwide pleasant match on the Noevir Stadium, Kobe on Thursday, sixth October this 12 months. The date falls inside one of many FIFA Ladies Worldwide Home windows for this 12 months.

Nadeshiko Japan, which is the alias of the Ladies Nationwide Workforce of Japan, are rated thirteenth on the planet, whereas the Tremendous Falcons are thirty ninth.

Each groups have clashed solely as soon as at a aggressive degree – on the 2004 Olympic Ladies’s Soccer Match. Nadeshiko pipped the Falcons 1-0 on the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus on 14th August 2004.

Two back-to-back friendlies in 2013 have been gained 2-0 every by Nadeshiko.

Japan’s entertaining ladies gained the FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2011, beating Workforce USA in a pulsating penalty shoot-out after regulation time ended 2-2. Nadeshiko thus turned the primary group from Asia to win a senior FIFA World Cup trophy.

The Tremendous Falcons are perennial champions of the African continent and have participated at each FIFA Ladies’s World Cup because the competitors started in 1991, reaching the quarter-finals in 1999.

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