SUPER FALCONS TO PLAY TEAM USA IN A PRESTIGIOUS FRIENDLY MATCH SEPTEMBER

9-time African champions Nigeria will fly to the US of America for a two-match tour in opposition to the US Ladies’s Nationwide Crew (USWNT) within the month of September.

Each groups, presently competing of their respective continental tournaments, will conflict on the Youngsters’s Mercy Park in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas on third September after which have a go at one another’s jugular as soon as extra on the Audi Discipline in Washington, D. C. on sixth September.

The USWNT is probably the most profitable crew within the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, having gained half (4) of all eight championships competed for therefore far. The Stars & Stripes have been champions of the very first version in China in 1991, after which gained on dwelling soil in 1999, in Canada in 2015 and in France three years in the past. The crew has additionally gained 4 Olympic girls’s soccer gold medals and eight CONCACAF titles.

The Tremendous Falcons, billed to face Cameroon within the quarter-finals of the continuing Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday night, have gained the African championship 9 occasions, performed in each version of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup and in addition performed on the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic girls’s soccer match. They continue to be probably the most profitable girls’s crew on the African continent.

The Youngsters’s Mercy Park is dwelling to Kansas Metropolis within the US Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League and Sporting Kansas Metropolis within the Main League Soccer, whereas Audi Discipline is utilized by Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League aspect Washington Spirit and Main League Soccer crew, D. C. United.

The match in Kansas Metropolis will see Vlatko Andonovski, appointed Coach of USWNT on the finish of 2019, return to his dwelling space for the second time. It’s the sixth time that the USWNT will probably be taking part in on the Youngsters’s Mercy Park however it’s their first time on the Audi Discipline, although they’ve performed 10 occasions beforehand in Washington – all at RkF Stadium

Andonovski says he’s excited to ship out his ladies in opposition to the Tremendous Falcons: “First, I’m simply excited to play two matches in opposition to Nigeria. They’ve some very proficient gamers who will current lots of totally different issues for us to resolve on each side of the ball. Secondly, after all we’re trying ahead to bringing the crew again to among the best soccer stadiums in the US in Kansas Metropolis, in addition to attending to play our first sport at Audi Discipline, which I’ve visited a number of occasions for NWSL video games and can be a incredible venue for our crew to play in entrance of our dwelling followers.”

The USWNT has already certified for the 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup, turning into the twelfth crew to succeed in the finals and the primary crew from the CONCACAF area.

Nigeria’s Falcons are additionally coached by an American, long-time faculty coach Randy Waldrum – who’s aiming for a FIFA Ladies’s World Cup ticket and first African title with Nigeria in Morocco