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WATCH: Super Falcons depart Nigeria for Japan friendly

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The nine-time continental champions have left the nation to maintain a date with the Asian giants subsequent week

Tremendous Falcons are on their strategy to Kobe, Japan, the place they are going to tackle the Japan Girls’s Nationwide Workforce in a global pleasant slated for the NOEVIR Stadium Kobe on October 6.

In a video posted on the NFF TV and shared on the official Twitter account of the Nigerian girls’s nationwide staff, a number of the Falcons’ stars within the nation packed their baggage and headed to the airport. There they are going to make the journey to Japan, the place they are going to be joined by foreign-based stars like Barcelona’s Asisat Oshoala and new Levante las Planas signing Ebi Onome.

Two weeks in the past, Tremendous Falcons head coach Ralph Waldrum invited 22 gamers for the worldwide pleasant assembly with Japan.

That staff checklist additionally included three gamers from the Falconets aspect that reached the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The kids incomes their first senior call-ups are Revenue Imuran, Tosin Demehin, and Deborah Abiodun.

Nigeria will probably be searching for their first win over Japan since a 1-0 triumph on the 2004 Olympic Video games.
The Asian queens gained the 2 subsequent friendlies in 2013.

Japan head coach Ikeda Futoshi has warned his costs to not underrate the Tremendous Falcons as the previous African champions could be powerful opponents on their day.