FIFA U-17 World Cup: Flamingos to fly out to India Next Week

Head Coach of the U-17 Girls’s Nationwide Workforce(Flamingos), Bankole Olowookere, believes the Flamingos won’t simply make up the numbers on the FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup, which is able to happen from October 11 to October 30 in India.

The coach believed that the workforce will arrive in India subsequent week to begin preparations for the World Cup finals.

The Flamingos have been practising to the purpose of discomfort, based on Olowookere, who has been in camp in Abuja since August 30.

The Flamingos have been drawn in Group B, which additionally options Germany, Chile, and New Zealand.

“We’ve been working very arduous and taking part in a sequence of warm-up video games and the response to coaching and recreation plan by the ladies is what’s giving me the optimism that we’re going to India to do properly.

“I do know our group is a really tough one with Germany, New Zealand, and Chile, however we are going to attempt to qualify for the knockout stage and forge forward.

“I received’t say we’re prepared now however with the deliberate coaching tour proposed by the NFF and somewhat extra tactical tweak in the way in which we performed within the qualifying matches, we will be a giant risk to any nation in India.

” I hope to trim the workforce to competitors dimension earlier than we journey in all probability subsequent week.”

When questioned about his familiarity with Nigeria’s group rivals, Olowookere responded:

“I don’t know a lot, however the little we all know we’re engaged on.

“I hope to get clips of a few of their qualifying matches to organize for each recreation.

“We will respect all our opponents, however we will not concern them”

Previous to flying to India for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup, the Flamingos are slated to camp there for one week and play one or two friendlies