As hostilities resumes this weekend for women’s national teams on the African continent for a place in this years summer Olympic football tournament in Paris, Super Falcons and SLC Utah of USA striker, Ifeoma Onumonu, is resolute that Nigeria would not miss out of the Games, assuring that they would beat the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon over the two legs.
The Super Falcons have not featured in the football tournament of the Olympics in the last three editions, with their last appearance being the 2008 Beijing Olympics in South Korea.
Speaking on the match, Onumonu assured Nigerians that the Super Falcons would leave nothing to chance in their bid to qualify for this year’s Olympics.
She said the team is billed to go full swing to overcome their opponent and grab one of the available tickets, beginning with the match against the Indomitable Lionesses at the Stade de la Reunification in Doula this Friday.
“I am really confident of our qualification because I think we have a good team, we are together and we are prepared, and I think we are going to beat this team both away and in our home, no disrespect to them though.
“I want to promise we are going to be at this year’s Olympics, I mean we haven’t been there for years, so that is our real number one goal, anything can happen in this game, but our focus right now is to beat Cameroon.”
Nigeria will take on Cameroon in the penultimate round, after which the overall winner in the two legged encounter will face-off with the winner in the match between South Africa and Tanzania in the fourth and the final round for an automatic ticket to represent Africa at the Paris 2024 Olympics, in France.
