‘Falcons will make good in Germany’
Even though this year’s Women World Cup taking place in Germany
in June will be a tough one for Nigeria, the Super Falcons will not be
pushovers. This is the view of team coach, Eucharia Uche.
Uche, who beat the coaches of the Falconets and Flamingoes to
emerge 2010 Coach of the Year at the AIT Football Awards held in Portharcourt
on Tuesday, said the Falcons, who also won the team of the Year at the AIT
event, will mount a serious challenge for the title. Drawn in Group A alongside
defending champions, Germany, France and Canada, the Nigerian ladies have a
tough task ahead of them in the opinion of Nigerian football fans. This belief
is predicated largely on the strength of the 8-0 spanking of the Falcons by
Germany last year after the Nigerian team won the African Women’s Championships
in South Africa.
Different ball game
“Things will be different this time around. No team is going to
beat us by that margin at the World Cup. My ladies are fired up and we will do
our best,” said Uche whose team engages Namibia on April 2 in a tune up match
for the World Cup. On the award won by the Falcons, she said it is deserved. “I
am happy we won the award,” she said. “It is an honour deserved giving the
performance of the ladies. I thank the organisers of the award for recognising
hard work and excellence. My girls have tasted victory and now they know what
it means to win.”
Nigeria has been to all the editions of the FIFA women’s World Cup since its
inception in 1991 but has yet to make it past the quarter-final of the
tournament. Africa’s other representatives, Equatorial Guinea, the team Nigeria
beat to clinch the Africa Women’s Championship, are in Group with Brazil,
former champions, Norway and Australia.
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