Ifeoma Onumonu is confident the Super Falcons will qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games, reports Completesports.com.
The Super Falcons will keep a date with the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in the first leg of their third qualifying tie on Friday.
The encounter will hold at the Stade de la Reunification, Douala.
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The West Africans last appeared at the Olympics in 2008.
Onumonu is however upbeat the Super Falcons will secure the ticket this time around.
“I am really confident of our qualification because I think we have a good team, we are together and we are prepared, and I think we are going to beat this team both away and in our home, no disrespect to them though,” Onumonu told painmedia.com.
“I want to promise we are going to be at this year’s Olympics, I mean we haven’t been there for years, so that is our real number one goal, anything can happen in this game, but our focus right now is to beat Cameroon”
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Onumonu Talks Tough!
The fact that the big guns are in town for this encounter speaks volumes. Even the NFF had to bury their hatchet with Waldrum to bring him back for this mouthwatering encounter against Cameroon.
Slay Cameroon and be within touching distance of the Olympics this Summer.
Something tells me that the Super Falcons or more specifically this Super Falcons are itching to pull out all the stops to make up last year’s World Cup disappointment where they were whiskers away from a historic quarter final place.
They were able to carry the country along at the World Cup and they hope to do the same again as the Olympics should they qualify.
Ifeoma Onumonu is already bullish.
*I think we are going to beat this Cameroon team both away and in our home, no disrespect to them though,” she boasted.
But are these empty boasts?
I don’t think so. The team retains the same hunger that saw them cut through Australia last year whilst curtailing the ambitions of Canada and Ireland.
They could also have sent mighty England packing but for penalties proving to be their only stumbling block.
So, one has to take Onumonu’s boast with far more than a punch of salt.
But the Lionesses of Cameroon will not be easy preys, oh no, they too are a formidable force in African women’s football. But they have wobbled of late losing to Uganda and Kenya in disappointing fashion.
But our Super Falcons have been rampant post-world cup, putting 12 goals past 2 opponents (Ethiopia and Cape Verde) in 4 matches whilst only conceding 2 to qualify for Wafcon and to reach this stage of Olympic qualifiers.
There has been no letting up in intensity or ruthlessness from the Super Falcons post-World Cup.
But Cameroon are wounded Lionesses. They missed out of last year’s World Cup narrowly from the hands of Nigeria hence they are out for blood.
However, if Onumonu and her colleagues bring their A game to the fore, there indeed will be shedding of blood, not Nigerian blood though!
We shouldn’t underestimate any opponent but frankly I would be more concerned with South Africa in the next and final round if both us and them get there, than the stumbling Lionnesses who needed the poverty of African officiating to get this far. GOOD LUCK FALCONS!