Nigeria’s female senior nation team, Super Falcons is set to play France in a prestige friendly in Le Mans.
The game which will take place on April 6 at the Stade MMarena, comes days after the Super Eagles concluded the first phase of their 2018 FIFA World Cup actual build–up with games against Poland and Serbia.
Coach Thomas Dennerby, whose maidens composed entirely of home-based professionals at the WAFU women cup of nations in Abidjan in February, will have the complement of foreign-based gladiators when they battle with France as from 9:00pm on Friday next week.
Nigeria’s 17-woman list includes Rita Chikwelu, who captained the team to win an eighth continental title in Cameroon in December 2016, as well as big forward Desire Oparanozie, the effervescent Francisca Ordega, nimble-footed midfielder Ngozi Okobi and home-based goalkeepers Onyinyechukwu Okeke and Chiamaka Nnadozie.
U.S-based forward Courtney Dike and Ordega would be first arrivals in le mans on Tuesday, April 3 – the same day the delegation from Nigeria will depart from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The super falcons will lodge at the Mercure le Mans Centre.
See full list below
Goalkeepers: Onyinyechukwu Okeke; Chiamaka Nnadozie
Defenders: Josephine Chukwunonye; Ngozi Ebere; Faith Ikidi; Ugo Njoku; Osinachi Ohale; Glory Ogbonna
Midfielders: Rita Chikwelu; Ngozi Okobi; Ini-Abasi Umotong; Ogonna Chukwudi
Forwards: Francisca Ordega; Desire Oparanozie; Courtney Dike; Esther Sunday; Anam Imo
