FIFA World Cup: Reaching The Knockout Stage Is Our Primary Target – Waldrum

After the frustration of failing to make the dream of La Decima (The Tenth) come true on the twelfth Girls Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in staged by Morocco final yr – the Tremendous Falcons even failing to make the rostrum for the primary time in a few years – Head Coach Randy Waldrum is optimistic of a formidable efficiency on the forthcoming FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals developing in Australia & New Zealand in the summertime.

The American tactician is stuffed with optimism, and is assured that his workforce can go far within the international match, however insists they should take it one step at a time to attain greatness.

“The primary goal for us on the World Cup is to advance out of the group stage,” Waldrum advised the thenff.com.

“Everybody desires to get to the knockout stage however clearly to be able to obtain that, it’s a must to advance out of the group,

and now, our focus is principally on doing that.”

The Tremendous Falcons survived an enormous scare on the twelfth Girls Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. Despite the fact that the workforce completed in fourth place, thereby choosing the final computerized ticket from Africa to Australia & New Zealand, Nigerians noticed it as a disappointing outing, and rightly so. For a workforce that had received 9 of the earlier 11 editions of the competitors, dropping three out of its six matches in Morocco was seen as a catastrophe.

The workforce misplaced to eventual champions South Africa narrowly within the opening match, after which misplaced to the host nation Morocco by way of the lottery of penalty shootout within the semi finals – with two key gamers red-carded. Because it turned out, the Falcons failed to beat the set-back as they finally misplaced to Zambia within the third-place match by a lone objective.

Waldrum would need to rapidly wipe out such an unflattering file with a greater and improved efficiency by essentially the most profitable ladies’s workforce in Africa on the forthcoming World Cup to be co-hosted Down Below.

Nigeria will deal with Olympic champions Canada, co-hosts Australia and Republic of Eire within the group stage of the largest FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals ever, in group B of the match that begins on twentieth July. Australia & New Zealand 2023 is the primary time that the FIFA Girls’s World Cup will welcome 32 groups – the identical quantity as the boys’s match.

The Falcons shall be domiciled in Brisbane the place they may play two of their three matches, with the opposite recreation in one other Australian metropolis, Melbourne.

Nigeria is within the elite group of solely seven international locations which have by no means didn’t qualify for the FIFA Girls’s World Cup because the competitors was launched in China 32 years in the past.

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