Director of Technical at the Nigeria Football Federation, Emmanuel Ikpeme, has charged the Super Falcons to make sure they qualify for the knockout stages of the FIFA World Cup in Canada.
Speaking during his official welcome of the team to camp for their upcoming qualifiers, Ikpeme congratulated them for winning the Africa Women Championship (AWC), adding that they should extend their dominance to the world stage.
“You must work hard by your actions, conduct and utterances. It is not impossible to go beyond the group stages; it is football we are talking about.
You can go to Canada and become an upstart and scatter all earlier permutations and make a statement to the whole world.”
“It is not a question of coach inviting you to camp and you just come here and struggle to make the team to the World Cup and them you go there and just relax.”
“You girls must go beyond the group stage at the World Cup .
It’s not a question of playing friendly matches where you win by big margins, your ultimate goal is to go to Canada and exceed all expectations.”
“You must come out of that group D.
I want you girls to tell Nigerians that you are not only champions of Africa, but can conquer the world. Your ultimate goal is to go to Canada, qualify from your group and ultimately surpass any earlier record,” he said.(Vanguard)
