Four Super Falcons players get late invite for Japan Clash

Bayelsa ahead Flourish Sabastine, Edo Queens defender Jumoke Alani and Robo Queens winger Esther Onyenezide in addition to Rivers Angels defender Esther Ogbonna Akudo are the most recent handed late call-ups to the Tremendous Falcons for this month’s pleasant in opposition to Japan.

The nine-time African champions are scheduled to battle the two-time world champions in Kobe on Thursday, October 6, 2022 and coach Randy Waldrum has prolonged invites to the 4 gamers.

SavidNews experiences that, Sabastine, Onyenezide and Alani starred for the Falconets on the U20 Ladies’s World Cup in Costa Rica, the place the trio featured for the West African nation for the whole length of the match.

Sabastine, who’s contemporary from inspiring Bayelsa Queens to WAFU-B Champions League triumph, whereas Alani helped Edo Queens to runners-up cease on the not too long ago concluded Betsy Obaseki Cup in Benin the place they misplaced the title to.Robo Queens and Onyenezide, who was a part of the squad to United States tour.

The trio’s invites swell the variety of Falconets billed for the journey to Japan to 6, becoming a member of goalkeeper Nkiruka Obidinma, defenders Oluwatosin Demehin, Rofiat Imuran and midfielder Deborah Abiodun.

The Nigeria delegation departed Abuja on Saturday afternoon, with six gamers, specifically Rivers Angels duo of Abiodun and Akudo, Edo Queens duo of Obidinma and Alani plus Onyenezie and Sabastine.

Whereas some prime gamers, together with Leiceser Metropolis’s Ashleiph Plumptre have secured visa to Japan, just a few others [names withheld] are nonetheless racing in opposition to time to clinch theirs, having up until Monday for a surety.

The Tremendous Falcons will hope to bounce again from double defeats in opposition to america in opposition to one other high-profile facet forward of the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand.

INITIAL INVITED 22 SUPER FALCONS

Goalkeepers: Chiamaka Nnadozie, Nkiruka Obidinma, Yewande Balogun

Defenders: Osinachi Ohale, Ashleigh Plumptre, Oluwatosin Demehin, Glory Ogbonna, Rofiat Imuran, Michelle Alozie

Midfielders: Regina Otu, Christy Ucheibe, Halimatu Ayinde, Peace Efih, Ngozi Okobi-Okeoghene, Deborah Abiodun

Forwards: Asisat Oshoala, Uchenna Kanu, Ifeoma Onumonu, Present Monday, Vivian Ikechukwu, Rasheedat Ajibade, Toni Payne