WAFCON topscorer in, Barcelona star out of Nigeria’s friendly against Japan

The African and Asian powerhouses commerce tackles on Thursday in preparation for subsequent yr’s World Cup

Nigeria head coach Randy Waldrum has welcomed nineteen Tremendous Falcons stars to the staff camp in Kobe, Japan, forward of the pleasant encounter with the 2011 World champions.

The Tremendous Falcons will lock horns with the Nadeshiko on the Noevir Stadium in Kobe on Thursday, September 6.

High on the record of the gamers within the Nigerian camp is Atletico Madrid ahead Rasheedat Ajibade.

Ajibade completed because the joint-top goalscorer on the 2022 Girls Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco with three targets.

Certainly one of her strikes included the winner in opposition to Cameroon’s Lionesses within the quarter-finals that secured Nigeria’s place at subsequent yr’s FIFA Girls’s World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand.

Whereas Ajibade joins 18 others getting ready to face Japan, Barcelona striker Asisat Oshoala won’t be concerned.

The previous Liverpool and Arsenal striker final performed for the Tremendous Falcons on the WAFCON, the place she sustained an damage within the staff’s opening match.

She has, nevertheless, returned from the sidelined and scored an excellent objective for Barcelona of their 4-1 thrashing of Villarreal final month.

Tremendous Falcons’ full squad for Japan

Chiamaka Nnadozie
Nkiruka Obidinma
Glory Ogbonna
Akudo Ogbonna
Jumoke Alani
Deborah Abiodun
Esther Onyenezide
Ashleigh Plumptre
Rasheedat Ajibade
Peace Efih
Osinachi Ohale
Michelle Alozie
Ifeoma Onumonu
Flourish Sabastine
Christy Ucheibe
Amanda Mbadi
Ngozi Okobi
Uche Kanu
Vivian Ikechukwu