Super Falcons captain Rasheedat Ajibade has reflected on the team’s disappointing campaign at the ongoing 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations.
Ajibade and her teammates failed to live up to expectations at the tournament, crashing out in the quarter-finals following a 1-0 defeat to the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon.
Justine Madugu’s side also missed out on automatic qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil.
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Thursday night’s 2-1 defeat to Banyana Banyana of South Africa further ended the 10-time African champions’ hopes of securing a place in the inter-confederation playoffs.
Reflecting on the team’s performance, Ajibade acknowledged the rapid growth of women’s football across Africa and stressed the need for the Super Falcons to prepare adequately for future tournaments.
“To be honest, my biggest lesson is just gratitude. We should be grateful,” Ajibade told reporters after the game against South Africa.
”We should learn not to be lax because the competition is fierce now. We must realize we’re not invincible; we just need to prepare more, get better, and demand more of ourselves individually and collectively.”
By Adeboye Amosu
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Comoros, Super Falcons next olympics qualifiers opposition, beat sudan 30 – 0 on aggregate for June.
Falcons wey no fit beat WAFCON debutants for the first time in 35 years, Malawi, go fit beat comoros like this?
Congratulations to all who edged Madugu on.
6 times out of 9 wwc appearances by falcons were powered by local coaches oh, if at all, we love “our own” until “pragmatic” Madugu showed up with a stinker.
NFF was inept those years.
What an infamy of unwanted records in the name of Madugu.
FIFA will not pay Nigerian players directly in 2027 because of a coach who went for pure self sabotage with 5 different lineups in 5 WAFCON 2026 games.
Nigerian Guardiola.
Congrats to all local coaches bootlickers.
Incidentally, all the African nations going directly to the world cup now are going with astute foreign managers as either coach or backroom staff.
Malawi, Cameroon, Algeria and Morocco.
Forward thinkers.
Let’s keep failing with our own jare