8 June 2011
The National Women’s team, Super Falcons will Wednesday play its third warm-up game since setting up camp in Saalfelden, Austria on May 26, with the Austrian National Women’s team as opponents.
The game, which will be played at the Stadion Leogang, only five minutes’ drive from the Falcons’ Hotel Saliterhof abode in Saalfelden, starts at 6.30pm Austria time (5.30pm Nigeria time).
Six-time champions of the African continent, the Super Falcons have played in every FIFA World Cup finals since the inaugural tournament in China 20 years ago.
They defeated Austrian first division team, Wacker Innsbruck 7-0 in their first friendly match on Sunday, May 29 and piped the Czech Republic National team 1-0 on Wednesday, June 1st.
Wednesday’s match will help Coach Eucharia Uche, who attended a three-day CAF Coaching Course in Ethiopia between June 4-6, to make up her mind on her final list of 21 players for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany. The final list must be submitted latest on Friday.
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