Nine-time African champions, Nigeria, will be one of four participating teams at this year’s WNT Summer Series Invitational scheduled to take place from June 10 to 16 in the United States.
The tournament which is being presented by AT&T 5G would also have the women A national teams of hosts, the United States of America, Portugal and Jamaica in attendance.
Matches will be played at the BBVA Stadium in Houston and at the brand-new, $240million Q2 Stadium in Austin built by the newest club in the Major League Soccer, Austin FC.
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Both cities are in the State of Texas and the clash between the Super Falcons and the US Women A team will be the first-ever football match at the state-of-the-art Q2.
The tournament, which also held in 2017 and 2018, will see the Super Falcons clash with their Jamaican counterparts in Houston on June 10 before taking on Portugal three days later at the same BBVA Stadium.
Nigeria’s last match is against the USA squad, four-time winners of the FIFA World Cup and four-time winners of the Olympic football gold, at the Q2 Stadium on June 16.
Randy Waldrum, who presently handles the Super Falcons, is an American who also coached the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s National Team 2014-2016, and led the Super Falcons to three wins out of three in the Turkish Women’s Invitational Tournament in Antalya in February.
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The USA is the only one of the four teams in the Summer Series that will compete in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, but Nigeria have remained the dominant force in Africa since qualifying for the first edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 30 years ago and winning the first edition of the Women AFCON in 1998.
The match against Nigeria will mark the first time the USA has ever faced the Super Falcons outside of a world championship and it will be just the third-ever friendly against an African country, with the previous two coming against South Africa.
“The Summer Series is an interesting event and the teams featuring are of very high quality. It is a great prospect for us as we continue to build ahead of the qualifying games for next year’s Women Africa Cup of Nations,” Waldrum said.
Meanwhile, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will hold the draw for next year’s Women Africa Cup of Nations in Cairo next Monday. The final tournament will be staged by Morocco.
