Super Falcons head coach Randy Waldrum has invited 21 players for the team’s 2024 Olympic Games qualifier against the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon.
Waldrum will take charge of the Super Falcons for the first time since the Round of 16 clash against the Three Lionesses of England at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Waldrum’s contract with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, ended last summer and talks over a new deal have dragged on for several months.
His assistant, Justin Maduagu, has been in charge of the Super Eagles since then.
However, Waldrum and the NFF have agreed on a contract extension.
The duo of Ashleigh Plumptre and Halimatu Ayinde are also making a return to the team after last featuring for the Super Falcons at the World Cup.
This fixture is the third round of the African qualifying series and the penultimate round of the series before the continent’s flag-bearers to the 2024 Olympics are known ahead of the Games in five months’ time.
Fierce rivals Nigeria and Cameroon will battle it out in the first leg of the fixture at the Stade de la Reunification in Douala, Cameroon on Friday next week (23rd February), with Ugandan official Shamirah Nabadda as referee. Her compatriots Lydia Nantabo, Jane Mutonyi and Diana Murungi will serve as assistant referee 1, assistant referee 2 and fourth official respectively. Khadija Rezzag from Morocco will be the referee assessor while Lukusa Kanjinga from Democratic Republic of Congo will be the commissioner.
For the second leg match in Nigeria, taking place at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Monday, 26th February, CAF has appointed Namibian official Ndemugwanitha Twanyanyukwa as referee, with her compatriots Eveline Augustinus, Olivia Amukuu and Vistoria Shangula in the roles of assistant referee 1, assistant referee 2 and fourth official respectively.
Alice Wangari Kimani from Kenya will serve as referee assessor while Christine Ziga from Ghana will be the commissioner.
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