By Obaloluwa Joshua, LAGOS
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Ibrahim Gusau has laid out plans for the Super Falcons to win the 2025 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations.
The Super Falcons will be looking to wrestle the crown from Banyaya Banyana of South Africa in Morocco this summer.
Justine Madugu’s side finished fourth at the last edition of the competition which was also hosted by Morocco.
“My projection is that we are going to get back out trophy because as far as I’m concerned that trophy belong to Nigeria and that’s why we are not taking any chances,” Gusau told NFF TV.
“Every single FIFA window we will give them the opportunity to have quality friendly match.
“Before the WAFCON I think we have about two windows which we intend to make sure that we utilise them effectively to make sure they have good preparation.
“As I’ve said we are trying to see how we can inject young girls from our local league which we feel are going to bring a lot of positive impact into the team.
“That’s why we had the friendly match with Algeria in Lagos and Ikenne which helped us to get some of these girls and inject them with the foreign-based which gave us the result we had against France (2-1 defeat to France in friendly game) because about seven of the home girls were injected into the Super Falcons and we were able to get the result.”
The Super Falcons are drawn in Group B with Tunisia, Algeria and Botswana.
The competition will run from July 5 to July 26, 2025.
