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The Super Falcons will face the Canadian women national team in friendly matches next month to celebrate the North American ladies’ triumph at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo last August, Megasportsarena.com reports.
Canada, who are the sixth ranked team in the world, beat Sweden 3–2 in the final to win their first-ever gold medal in the Summer Olympics football tournament.
Both sides will face-off in a two-match series.
The first game will be played on April 8 in Vancouver, while the second match will be played three days later, on April 11, at the Starlight Stadium in Langford.
Canada’s head coach Beverly Priestman expressed her delight at facing the most successful African women’s national team.
“I was over the moon to get Nigeria over the line,” Priestman told the CBC.
“We haven’t got a lot of experience against African nations so for me, playing Nigeria, we haven’t played them a lot, but we know they’re an unbelievable team, and it’ll be a great experience for us to keep pushing forward on our new journey.”
Nigeria and Canada have met three times in the past with honours evenly shared after a win, a draw, and a loss.
The first meeting between the two sides saw the Super Falcons come from a two-goal deficit to seal a pulsating 3-3 draw at the 1995 Women World Cup in Sweden.
Their second meeting was at the 2011 World Cup where Perpetual Nkwocha’s 84th-minute strike handed Nigeria a 1-0 win over the North Americans.
Canada then exacted their revenge in 2019 during a friendly, claiming a 2-1 victory over the reigning African champions.
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