WAFCON 2022: Super Falcons Legend, Rachael Ayegba To Join Commentary Team – National

Forward of the Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations set to kick begin in Morocco on 2nd July, Africa’s soccer governing physique, CAF has drawn a listing of legends for his or her TV commentary staff for the competitors.

The 14th version of the WAFCON which could have all its video games reside on the printed could have famend former Indomitable Lionesses’ captain Christine Manie (Cameroon), former Banyana Banyana (South Africa) worldwide and captain Amanda Dlamini, and former Carthage Eagles (Tunisia) Haifa Guedri and former Nigeria’s Tremendous Falcons goalkeeper nicknamed ‘Baruwa’ Rachael Ayegba for commentary and evaluation all through the event.

In response to CAF, the staff of commentators and analysts will “type a part of the build-ups and commentary for all matches.”

CAF famous of their assertion that “the stellar on-site commentary and evaluation staff is a primary within the historical past of the WAFCON competitors and is a part of CAF’s goal to boost the standard of the TV product for the viewer, consistent with the rising world stature of African ladies’s soccer.”

CAF’s Basic Secretary Veron Mosengo-Omba identified that “The viewer expertise is our precedence, we would like ladies’s soccer in Africa to be a globally aggressive tv product. We’re excited to welcome these stars who will likely be a part of the CAF household. Bettering the tv product is one in all our high priorities proper now. Girls’s soccer in Africa is on the ascendance and I’m actually trying ahead to this competitors.”

Ayegba who made her debut for the Tremendous Falcons in 2001 had an energetic 11-year profession the place she represented Nigeria on the 2006 and 2008 WAFCON successful the title in 2006, a bronze in 2008, and likewise a gold medal in 2007 All Africa Video games.

The previous Edo Queens star additionally performed on the 2007 FIFA Girls’s World Cup whereas she performed in Finland all via her membership profession in Europe successful 5 main trophies there.

The goalkeeper who retired from soccer in 2016, has a UEFA A training license and now works as a bus driver in London was Africa’s first feminine goalkeeper to win a European title.

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