FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: NFF To Hold Send-Forth For Super Falcons On Saturday

The Nigeria Soccer Federation will on Saturday set up a Ship-Forth dinner for the World Cup-bound Senior Girls Nationwide Workforce, Tremendous Falcons, forward of the crew’s departure from the nation to take part within the ninth FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals going down in Australia and New Zealand, 20 July – 20 August this yr.

Her Excellency, Spouse of the President, Senator (Mrs) Oluremi Tinubu will lead a selection solid of eminent political chieftains and prime authorities functionaries, which can embrace the Everlasting Secretary within the Federal Ministry of Sports activities and Youth Growth, Alhaji Ismaila Abubakar and his counterpart within the Federal Ministry of Girls Affairs and Social Growth.

variety of the enjoying physique, in addition to technical and administrative officers, are anticipated alongside the hierarchy and rank and file of the NFF, led by the President, Ibrahim Musa Gusau and the Normal Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi.

The occasion on the Transcorp Hilton Lodge, Abuja can even appeal to company chieftains, members of the diplomatic corps and a variety of soccer stakeholders.

On Sunday, the nine-time African champions will depart the shores of Nigeria for a 15-day tenting programme in Australia, earlier than they enter into camp for the match correct, with their base at Brisbane – which can be venue for 2 of their matches within the group section.

Nigeria’s first match of the finals is towards Canada, at Melbourne’s Rectangular Stadium, on Friday, 21 July, earlier than clashes with co-host nation Australia and Republic of Eire on Thursday, 27 July and Monday, 31 July respectively, on the Lang Park in Brisbane.

Australia and New Zealand 2023 would be the biggest-ever FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals in historical past, because it welcomes 32 groups – identical quantity as featured within the males’s finals in Qatar final yr. Additionally it is the primary to be hosted by two nations, and is the first-ever FIFA senior competitors to be hosted by two nations in two totally different confederations: Australia is within the Asian confederation whereas New Zealand is in Oceania.

Nigeria’ captain Onome Ebi shall be one of many oldest gamers on the match, at 40, alongside Brazil’s Marta and Canada’s Christine Sinclair. The three ladies shall be that includes of their sixth FIFA Girls’s World Cup match.

Twenty-four hours earlier than the Ship-Forth on the Transcorp Hilton, the Australian Excessive Fee, courtesy of the Ag. Excessive Commissioner, Her Excellency Leanne Johnston, will host the Falcons to a dinner on the Excessive Fee in Abuja.

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