U20 Women's World Cup: Falconets Set To Dominate CAR In Cameroon Today

U20 Women's World Cup: Falconets Set To Dominate CAR In Cameroon Today By Our Reporter Africa’s most successful team at the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup finals, the Falconets of Nigeria will on Saturday (today) commence another race to qualify for the global tournament when they square up to their counterparts from the Central African Republic in the city of Douala, Cameroon. Africa’s football-governing body, CAF did not approve any stadia facility in Central African Republic as being good enough to host an international match – this has forced the country’s national teams to adopt other nations as ‘home ground’. Falconets have played in every edition of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup since the competition was launched as an U19 tournament in Canada in 2022, winning the silver medals in 2010 in Germany and in 2014 in Canada, and were semi finalists in 2012 in Japan. Head Coach Christopher Danjuma has picked 23 players from the group that has been training in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for several weeks now and the contingent has been in Cameroon in readiness for the encounter. The girls from Central African Republic reached this stage of the qualifiers after Equatorial Guinea’s U20 girls withdrew from their preliminary fixture scheduled for last month. Today’s encounter is slated for the Stade Japoma de Douala from 3pm Cameroon time. Nigeria will host Central African Republic in Lagos on October 20, 2021 for the second leg of the qualifier. The winners in both legs will join Ghana and other African countries in the next round for the race to qualify for the World Cup finals in Costa Rica.