Liberia
Meets Nigeria Tomorrow
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Friday, 12th May 2006
By D. Webster Cassell
…In CAF Female Preliminaries Final Battle
The Super Falconets of Nigeria will tomorrow take on the Liberia
U-20 female national team in their last encounter of the CAF U-20
female preliminaries.
The winner from tomorrow’s match will automatically qualify for the
FIFA World Women Championship scheduled to be held in Russia.
Liberia U-20 female delegation left the country on Wednesday ahead
of the match and later arrived in Lagos, where they logged for a day
before going to Abuja where the game is expected to be played.
According to information, the Lone Star U-20 female team headed by
Coach Lucretius Togba, comprises twenty of Liberia’s well seasoned
and potential female players for the away encounter against her
Nigerian counterparts in Abuja.
The team’s captain, a very tactical defender, Florence Momboe is
expected to lead the Liberian squad against the Super Falconets as
they go to the deciding battle tomorrow in front of thousands of
Nigerian fans.
The last time Nigeria hosted a foreign female team, they crushed
them 8-0, but reports gathered suggest that over five of the Super
Falconets players have been dropped from the squad.
Some of the players including the Denmark based, Stella Godwin, who
got the Falconets’ lone goal here in Liberia and other regular
players who played an important role in the 8-0 win over Kenya have
also been sidelined due to injury and other circumstances.
Liberia will now capitalize on the vacuum to secure a win that will
take them to the FIFA World Women Championship for the first time in
its history.
Meanwhile, the Assistant Minister of Sports, Mr. Murvee Gray has
disclosed that prior to the departure of the National female team,
the team’s technical staff managed to work on the team’s endurance,
ball possession and speed of the players, something that greatly
affected them in the first leg match here fortnight ago.
Mr. Gray said, upon the arrival of the team in Nigeria, the girls
were given a place to train, at the Van Ethnan Air Force Base, in
Lagos, before flying to Abuja where the match is to be played.
The MYS official pointed out that with the level of training the
girls have been going through before their departure, he is
convinced that the girls will put out a surprise.
According to him, the girls are presently gearing up in high spirit
to win the match, and are very optimistic that they can conquer the
Falconets of Nigeria as they did to Algeria in Algiers.
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