Waldrum: Super Falcons Must Qualify For 2024 Olympics

Super Falcons head coach, Randy Waldrum says it is important for the team to secure a place at the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris.

The nine-time African champions last qualified for the Olympics in 2008.

The Super Falcons will battle the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in the third round of the qualifiers.

The first leg encounter will take place at the Stade de la Reunification in Douala on Friday evening.

The reverse fixture is slated for the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja next week Monday.

Waldrum stated that the Super Falcons will fight hard to secure a berth in Paris 2024.

“The goal obviously is to qualify for the Olympics. We can’t look ahead of ourselves and say this is what we want to achieve at the Olympics,”Waldrum told the Super Falcons media team.

“Qualification is going to be the primary goal. Everyone know we have some difficult set of matches coming up against Cameroon.

“The focus is now on the two matches. Cameroon stopped us from going to the Olympics few years back, I think in 2012. The two countries know each other very well.

“They have lots of talents and are very dangerous, especially their counter attacking style of play.

“But I really like our squad, I like the team chemistry. We are able to get all our players back in for these matches which us very important.

“So, if we can put together the performances like we did at the last World Cup , then I fancy our chances.

“We just need to build on what we did at the World Cup and even do better. The difficult part in all these matches, is that the window of time in the international break does not allow for a lot of training time.

“We will have to use our experience at the World Cup to win these games because we have few days to train.”