Super Falcons To Hosts Australia, Ireland And Canada At FIFA World Cup

Tremendous Falcons of Nigeria will play joint-hosts Australia, Canada, and the Republic of Eire in Group B of the ninth FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals taking place in the summertime of subsequent 12 months.

On the draw ceremony held in Auckland/Tâmaki Makaurau on Saturday, it emerged that Nigeria will play Canada in her first match of the competitors to be staged in a complete of 9 cities (5 in Australia and 4 in New Zealand), which is able to boast 32 groups – the largest within the historical past of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup because it started in China in 1991.

Joint hosts New Zealand will battle Norway, the Philippines, and Switzerland in Group A.

Nigeria, alongside USA, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Japan are the one seven international locations to have featured in all earlier editions of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup, between China in 1991 and France in 2019.

The Falcons had been on a tour of Canada six months in the past, the place they performed two matches in opposition to Olympic champions Canada, dropping one narrowly and drawing the opposite.

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