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Super Falcons to face Japan in international friendly in Kobe

[FILE]Super Falcons players pose for a team shot before the start of their Africa Women Cup of Nations qualifier against the Ivory Coast at the Stade Robert Champroux in Abidjan. Photo: Instagram/Super Falcons

Nine-time African champions and FIFA World Cup ever-present, Nigeria, will take on Japan in a prestige international friendly match at the Noevir Stadium, Kobe, Japan, on October 6, 2022. The date falls within one of the FIFA Women International Windows for this year.   Nadeshiko Japan, which is the alias of the women national team of Japan, are rated 13th in the world, while the Super Falcons are 39th.   Both teams have clashed only once at competitive level – at the 2004 Olympic Women’s Football Tournament. Nadeshiko pipped the Falcons 1-0 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus on August 14, 2004.   Two back-to-back friendlies in 2013 were won 2-0 each by Nadeshiko.   Japan’s entertaining girls won the FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2011, beating Team USA in a pulsating penalty shoot-out after regulation time ended 2-2. Nadeshiko thus became the first team from Asia to win a senior FIFA World Cup trophy.   The Super Falcons are perennial champions of the African continent and have participated at every FIFA Women’s World Cup since the competition began in 1991, reaching the quarter finals in 1999.

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