Nigeria women national U-17 team, the flamingoes, are gearing up for an epic showdown with the Baby Gladiators of Namibia in the 2016 FIFA Women U17 World Cup qualifiers.
The South African side overcame Botswana 3-2 on aggregate to setup a titanic clash with the young Falcons.
Mervin Mbakera, coach of the Namibians, believes his team is capable of creating an upset by beating the powerful Nigerians.
"We’ve been preparing so hard for this game, both physically and mentally. The team has been together for over three years now, most of them graduated from the national U-13 team and we are confident that we can progress through to the second round with due respect to the Flamingoes.
” Having said that, we expect a very tough game against the best team in Africa and I want to believe that with the kind of support the girls have been receiving from Government and the fans, I believe we can all achieve our long term dream; which is to qualify for the World Cup in Jordan come 2016.”
” We are coming to defend well (not to concede plenty of goals), then finish the job at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Windhoek on January 23, 2016, which would be a good score-line for us to advance to the next round of the qualifier” , Mbakera told SRSport.com in a telephone interview.
The game will be played on Saturday, January 9th at the Abuja National Stadium in Abuja at 4pm local time (15:00GMT).
While the second leg wcomes up in a forthnight on January 23 2016, at the Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek in Namibia.
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