Confirmed: USA ready double-header friendlies against Nigeria

The USWNT will face their Nigerian counterparts in a few friendlies scheduled for later within the yr

America Girls’s nationwide crew (USWNT) has confirmed it is going to face the Nigerian ladies’s nationwide crew in two pleasant matches slated for September.

The US girls will first commerce tackles with the Tremendous Falcons on September 3 on the Kids’s Mercy Park in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas.

Three days later (Sept. 6), each groups will face off once more on the Audi Discipline in Washington, D.C.

Head coach of the USWNT, Vlatko Andonovski, confirmed the video games, saying: “First, I’m simply excited to play two matches towards Nigeria. They’ve some very proficient gamers who will current a number of completely different issues for us to unravel on each side of the ball.

“Secondly, in fact we’re wanting ahead to bringing the crew again to among the finest soccer cities and finest soccer stadiums in america in Kansas Metropolis, in addition to attending to play our first recreation at Audi Discipline, which I’ve visited a number of occasions for NWSL video games and can be a incredible venue for our crew to play in entrance of our dwelling followers.”

Nigeria met with america in an analogous pleasant match final yr June, with the African champions falling to a 2-0 defeat on the Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas.

The USWNT is probably the most profitable crew in worldwide ladies’s soccer, profitable 4 Girls’s World Cup titles and 4 Olympic gold medals. The Stars and Stripes are the present world champions.

Nigeria are not any minnows within the ladies’s recreation, both. The Tremendous Falcons are probably the most profitable crew on the African continent, with a document 9 Cup of Nations titles.

The reigning continental queens are presently within the hunt for a tenth championship honour at Morocco 2022.

The Falcons meet Cameroon within the quarterfinals of the competitors on Thursday.

The US have, nonetheless, loved whole supremacy over the Nigerians. In six earlier conferences between the 2, the Tremendous Falcons haven’t recorded a single constructive consequence, dropping all.