Heroic Falcons Return Home

Super Falcons’ captain Uzoaru Precious Dede and Coach Eucheria Uche display the team’s Fair Play Award.

Super Falcons' captain Uzoaru Precious Dede and Coach Eucheria Uche display the team's Fair Play Award.

The victorious Super Falcons at the just concluded African Women Championship, AWC  in South Africa were due back in Nigeria after winning the coveted trophy for a  record sixth time.

•Super Falcons' captain Uzoaru Precious Dede and Coach Eucheria Uche display the team's Fair Play Award.

The Falcons reclaimed the women championship with a 4-2 victory over the Guineans at  the Sinama Stadium on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa yesterday. It was  also a sweet revenge for the Nigerians against a team that dethroned them two years  ago. The Falcons also scooped the Top Scorer award, Most Valuable Player award as  well as the Fair Play trophy in a tournament they dominated from start to finish.

Falcons and their technical crew led by Uche Eucharia were scheduled to arrive the  Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria aboard Arik Airline this afternoon  to a rousing welcome from soccer loving Lagosians, who were so glad with their  routing of Equatorial Guinea in the final of the AWC.

The victorious team are being received right now by the Deputy Secretary General of  Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Dr. Emmanuel Ikpeme. The team would be treated to  a brief reception at the airport after which they would be driven from the  international wing of the airport in a motorcade to the MMA2 from where they would  connect a local flight to Abuja.

The Acting Secretary General of the NFF, Alhaji Musa Ahmadu, would received the team  at the Abuja International Airport where another round of reception would hold for  the new African women champions.

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Speaking of her team’s heroic exploits at the AWC, a jubilant Coach Eucharia said:  “We went to South Africa to win and we won.”  Striker Desire Oparanozie added: “We  were determined to win this trophy and we gave it our best shot.

After the Abuja reception, the Falcons would be lodged in a hotel in readiness for  their decamping tomorrow to celebrate the Sallah with their families.

P.M.Sports gathered that the team would reconvene on Friday in Abuja to kick start  their preparation for an international friendly game with the reigning world  champions, Germany next week.

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