Nigeria Leagues
Nigeria’s Super Falcons Star Set For NWFL Return
Onome Ebi, One of many oldest members of the Tremendous Falcons and the primary African footballer to play in 5 FIFA World Cup Tournaments set to return to Nigeria Ladies’s Soccer League, (NWFL) 15 years after exiting the nation.
The 39-year-old has been included within the roster for Tremendous Falcons’ camp in Turkey, as Nigeria is ready to compete in worldwide friendlies towards Haiti and New Zealand in April within the build-up to the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup.
Ebi grew to become a free agent, after parting methods with the Spanish facet, Levante Las Planas in December and is ready to return to the Nigeria Ladies Soccer League Premiership for the primary time since she left Bayelsa Queens in 2008.
After weeks of negotiations, the Umuahia-based outfit is edging nearer to an settlement in precept for the Nigeria ladies’s Nationwide staff Captain, and so they anticipate concluding the deal within the coming days.
Sources additionally revealed that Abia Angels Coach, Ann Chiejine, who doubled as Tremendous Falcons Assistant Coach, was influential within the potential change of the veteran defender to the NWFL Premiership Tremendous Six chasing outfit.
After leaving Omidiran Babes for Bayelsa Queens in 2008, Ebi moved to the Swedish facet a yr later earlier than suiting up for Djurgarden, Duvenciler Lisesispor, Atasehir Belediyespor, Sunnana SK, FC Minsk, and Henan Jianye.
On the worldwide degree, she grew to become the primary African footballer to play in 5 FIFA World Cup Tournaments and is ready to make her sixth look on the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, after participating in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019 World Cups.
Ebi was additionally a member of the Nigerian squad within the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 editions of the Ladies Africa Cup of Nations, (WAFCON) successful the event 4 instances in 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018.
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