India 2022: Olowookere picks Dah-Zossu, Ajakaye, Afolabi, 18 others for World Cup

Head Coach Bankole Olowookere has chosen crew captain Alvine Dah-Zossu, midfield jewel Taiwo Afolabi and high scorer Opeyemi Ajakaye as a part of Nigeria’s 21-girl squad for this yr’s FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup finals.

There are additionally first-choice goalkeeper Religion Omilana, defenders Consolation Folorunsho, Blessing Sunday and Miracle Usani, midfielders Blessing Emmanuel and Chidera Okenwa, and forwards Omowunmi Bello and Yetunde Ayantosho.

Gamers and officers are scheduled to depart the shores of Nigeria on Monday, twenty sixth September for a 10-day coaching camp in Turkey, earlier than the delegation will jet off for India from Istanbul on sixth October.

Matches of this yr’s FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup will happen on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa and the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai.

Nigeria’s first match of the marketing campaign is in opposition to Germany in Goa on Tuesday, eleventh October, beginning at 8pm India time (4pm Nigeria time). The Flamingos will then sq. as much as New Zealand on Friday, 14th October additionally in Goa, earlier than flying to Bhubaneswar to tackle Chile on Monday, seventeenth October.

For the reason that competitors was launched in New Zealand 14 years in the past, Nigeria has solely as soon as been absent on the FIFA U17 Ladies’s World Cup – the 2018 finals staged in Uruguay.

21 FLAMINGOS FOR FIFA WORLD CUP:

Goalkeepers: Religion Omilana; Linda Jiwuaku; Jessica Inyiama

Defenders: Olamide Oyinlola; Josephine Edafe; Consolation Folorunsho; Miracle Usani; Tumininu Adeshina; Blessing Sunday; Alase Attervall; Immaculata Offiong

Midfield: Chidera Okenwa; Blessing Emmanuel; Mary Aderemi; Bisola Mosaku; Taiwo Afolabi

Ahead: Omowunmi Bello; Opeyemi Ajakaye; Edidiong Etim; Alvine Dah-Zossu; Yetunde Ayantosho

GROUP A: India, USA, Morocco, Brazil

GROUP B: Germany, Nigeria, Chile, New Zealand

GROUP C: Spain, Colombia, Mexico, China

GROUP D: Japan, Tanzania, Canada, France

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