Falconets to take week break amid World Cup preparations

Caretaker July 21, 2024

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Nigeria has qualified for the 2024 FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments following a 2-0 aggregate win over Burundi in the final qualifying round.

The Nigeria U20 women’s national team, the Falconets, will take a week-long break after three weeks of camping in Abuja in preparation for the FIFA U20 World Cup in Colombia. The team, which began camping on July 7, will embark on a break at the end of the month and resume on August 7, 2024.

A source from the camp informed BSNSports, “The NFF said we should go on a week break, starting from the end of this month till August 7. We resumed camping on July 7, and just three weeks in camp, we will go on a break when we are supposed to be playing international friendly matches in preparation for the World Cup. This, without a doubt, will affect our performance at the World Cup.”

Nigeria is drawn in Group D alongside Germany, Venezuela, and Korea Republic.

The Falconets will kick off their World Cup campaign against Korea Republic on September 1 at the El Techo Stadium in Bogota at 6:00 PM.

Their second group game will be against Germany on September 4 at 5:00 PM at the same venue.

The last group game will see Nigeria taking on Venezuela on September 7 in Cali at 3:00 PM.

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