Abuja – The Super Falcons’ interim Head Coach, Chris Danjuma, has invited to camp 35 players as the team begins preparations for their 2016 Olympic Games qualifying fixture against Equatorial Guinea.
A report on the website of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said the players have been told to report in Abuja on Wednesday.
It said the team’s camping in Abuja was ahead of the team’s departure to Port Harcourt for the first leg of the third round of the 2016 Olympics qualifiers.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match is to come up on July 18.
The Nigerian senior women national team will then visit Bata for the return leg on Aug. 2.
Danjuma, who replaced Edwin Okon on Monday, has recalled Sweden–based defender Faith Ikidi, goalkeepers Tochukwu Oluehi and Sandra Chiichii, centre–back Joy Jegede and Sweden-based forward Sarah Michael.
There are also goalkeepers Precious Dede and Ibubeleye Whyte, defenders Onome Ebi, Osinachi Ohale, Ngozi Ebere, Evelyn Nwabuoku, Blessing Edoho and Josephine Chukwunonye.
Midfielders Halimat Ayinde, Onyinyechi Ohadugha, Amarachi Okoronkwo, Osarenoma Igbinovia, Ngozi Okobi and Cecilia Nku have also been invited.
The rest are forwards Asisat Oshoala, Francisca Ordega, Esther Sunday, Desire Oparanozie and Loveth Ayila.
Equatorial Guinea is the only other country, apart from Nigeria, to have triumphed at the biennial African Women Championship, launched in 1998.
The Guineans have won the trophy twice, against Nigeria’s seven times.
THE FULL LIST
Faith Ikidi (Pitea IF, Sweden); Onome Ebi (FK Minsk, Belarus); Osinachi Ohale (Rivers Angels); Francisca Ordega (Washington Spirit, USA); Precious Dede (Ibom Queens);
Tochukwu Oluehi (Bayelsa Queens); Ibubeleye Whyte (Rivers Angels); Sandra Chiichii (Bayelsa Queens); Charity John (Rivers Angels); Joy Jegede (Delta Queens);
Mariam Ibrahim (Nasarawa Amazons); Halimat Ayinde (Delta Queens); Ngozi Ebere (Rivers Angels); Onyinyechi Ohadugha (Rivers Angels); Esther Sunday (FK Minsk, Belarus);
Chisom Henry (Sunshine Queens); Cecilia Nku (Rivers Angels); Desire Oparanozie (En Avant de Guingamp, France); Josephine Chukwunonye (Rivers Angels);
Asisat Oshoala (Liverpool Ladies, England); Ngozi Okobi (Delta Queens); Evelyn Nwabuoku (BIIK Kazygurt, Kazakhstan); Gladys Akpa (Sunshine Queens); Alheri Jummai Ayuba (Adamawa Queens);
Ginika Ike (Confluence Queens); Sherifat Sahid (Sunshine Queens); Osarenoma Igbinovia (Bayelsa Queens); Blessing Edoho (Pelican Stars); Yetunde Adeboyejo (Bayelsa Queens); Winifred Eyebhoria (Nasarawa Amazons);
Ebere Okoye (Nasarawa Amazons); Sarah Michael (Kif Orebro, Sweden); Amarachi Okoronkwo (Nasarawa Amazons); Loveth Ayila (Rivers Angels); Chioma Nwogu (Confluence Queens)
