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WAFCON: Oparanozie harps on experienced players


Former Super Falcons captain, Desire Oparanozie, has called on the team’s technical crew to reintegrate experienced players into the squad ahead of the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON).

The biennial African women’s soccer showpiece gets underway in July in Morocco.

Oparanozie said that while she welcomes the inclusion of new players, relying solely on them for a major tournament could hurt the team’s chances.

“I don’t think they will take everybody from this team because these are just new entrants. They don’t have the experience and a lot of them haven’t really had time to be around the team for so long and all of that,” the Imo State-born said.

Oparanozie warned that heading into a tournament of WAFCON’s magnitude with a largely inexperienced squad could be risky.

“So taking some of them into a tournament of that calibre, I think it would be disastrous for the team. So it’s better we stick to our normal squad,” she said.


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