{"id":7465,"date":"2022-06-24T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2022-06-24T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:20:35","slug":"mix-of-old-guard-fresh-blood-as-waldrum-name-ebi-okobi-oshoala-22-other-falcons-for-morocco-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/mix-of-old-guard-fresh-blood-as-waldrum-name-ebi-okobi-oshoala-22-other-falcons-for-morocco-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix of old guard, fresh blood as Waldrum name, Ebi, Okobi, Oshoala, 22 other Falcons for Morocco 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Head Coach Randy Waldrum has picked Captain Onome Ebi and 24 other players to represent Nigeria at the 12th<\/sup>\u00a0Women Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Morocco, 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 23rd<\/sup>\u00a0July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of the nine-time champions is an interesting mix of the old guard and new blood, with veterans Tochukwu Oluehi, Ebi, Rita Chikwelu, Osinachi Ohale, Francisca Ordega and Ngozi Okobi-Okeoghene on board, as well as defenders Ashleigh Plumptre, Nicole Payne and Michelle Alozie, midfielder Regina Otu and forwards Vivian Ikechukwu, Gift Monday and Ifeoma Onumonu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dropped from the contingent that made the camp in Abuja were goalkeeper Rita Akarekor, defenders Chidinma Okeke, Ngozi Emenayo and Opeyemi Sunday, midfielders Suliat Abideen, Amanda Uju Mbadi and Charity Adule, and forward Anam Imo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Super Falcons will confront South Africa\u2019s Banyana Banyana in their first match of the tournament on Monday, 4th<\/sup> July before other games against Botswana (7th<\/sup> July) and Burundi (10th<\/sup> July).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All four semi finalists at the championship in Morocco will qualify to represent Africa at the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Falcons\u2019 contingent will depart Nigeria for Morocco on Monday, 27th<\/sup> June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUPER FALCONS FOR 12TH<\/sup> WOMEN AFCON MOROCCO 2022:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goalkeepers<\/strong>: Chiamaka Nnadozie (Paris FC, France); Tochukwu Oluehi (Maccabi Kishronot Hadera, Israel); Yewande Balogun (Coppermine United, USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defenders:<\/strong> Glory Ogbonna (Santa Teresa FC, Spain); Onome Ebi (En Avant Guingamp, France); Osinachi Ohale (Deportivo Alaves, Spain); Ashleigh Plumptre (Leicester City, England); Nicole Payne (West Virginia University, USA); Michelle Alozie (Houston Dash, USA); Akudo Ogbonna (Edo Queens)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midfielders<\/strong>: Peace Efih (Kiryat Gat, Israel); Halimatu Ayinde (Eskilstuna FC, Sweden); Toni Oyedupe Payne (Sevilla FC, Spain); Regina Otu (Minsk FC, Belarus); Christy Ucheibe (SL Benfica, Portugal); Rasheedat Ajibade (Atletico Madrid, Spain); Rita Chikwelu (Madrid CFF, Spain); Ngozi Okobi-Okeoghene (Eskilstuna FC, Sweden)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forwards<\/strong>: Francisca Ordega (CSKA Moscow, Russia); Vivian Ikechukwu (WFC Gintra, Lithuania); Chinonyerem Macleans (GSK Gornik Leczna, Poland); Ifeoma Onumonu (NY\/NJ Gotham FC, USA); Uchenna Kanu (Tigres Femenil, Mexico); Asisat Oshoala (FC Barcelona, Spain); Gift Monday (Bayelsa Queens)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head Coach Randy Waldrum has picked Captain Onome Ebi and 24 other players to represent Nigeria at the 12th\u00a0Women Africa Cup of Nations taking place in Morocco, 2nd\u00a0\u2013 23rd\u00a0July. The list of the nine-time champions is an interesting mix of the old guard and new blood, with veterans Tochukwu Oluehi, Ebi, Rita Chikwelu, Osinachi Ohale, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[2397,2808,2807,2810,2811,746,747,2809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}