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Nigeria’s under-20 women shot team, the Falconets, connected Monday successful Bogota mislaid 0-1 to their Mexican counterparts successful a affable match.
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The lucifer played astatine the Club Banco de la República successful the Colombian superior metropolis was the last crippled successful their preparations for the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup holding there.
Mexico scored the lone extremity successful the 15th minute, done a volley by Alejandra Lomelí.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 2010 and 2014 metallic medallists had connected Friday beaten Australia 2-1 arsenic portion of their preparations.
Speaking aft Monday’s match, Falconets’ squad caput manager Christopher Danjuma said the crippled was their last warm-up earlier the tourney proper.
“The affable matches were important for the Falconets arsenic they person helped the squad fine-tune their strategies and measure their readiness for the tournament.
“We won 5 of our six qualifying matches with steadfast scorelines and person added triumph implicit the Australians, adjacent though we mislaid to the Mexico team.
“That the squad played 2 planetary affable matches and won 1 and mislaid 1 shows the girls are acceptable and we volition enactment much connected our lapses earlier the competition,” helium said.
Danjuma nevertheless acknowledged that the FIFA World Cup finals would not beryllium easy.
“ The information that we are up against Korea Republic and three-time winners Germany successful our archetypal 2 matches means we request to beryllium astatine our champion physically, mentally and psychologically.
“Physically and mentally, I judge we are successful shape. Psychologically, we are bully also.
“The squad near Nigeria to Colombia for 2 weeks truthful that we tin play prime affable matches successful readiness and we person done that,” helium said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria are with Germany, Venezuela and the Korea Republic successful Group D of the tourney scheduled for Saturday to Sept. 22.
Nigeria volition commencement their run against Korea Republic connected Sept. 2 earlier taking connected Germany 2 days aboriginal connected Sept. 4 and Venezuela connected Sept. 7.
Spain are the competition’s defending champions aft their occurrence astatine Costa Rica successful 2022.
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