South Africa ends Nigeria’s reign at Women World Cup, knock Falcons out of race
South Africa’s female football team on Thursday beat Nigeria’s Super Falcon 2-1 in Casablanca to qualify for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil. The defeat brings Super Falcons’ remarkable reign as Africa’s ever-present representatives at the FIFA Women’s World Cup to an end, meaning, Nigeria will miss the global tournament for the first […] The post South Africa ends Nigeria’s reign at…
Nigeria's women's football team, known as the Super Falcons, have been a constant presence at the FIFA Women's World Cup since 1991. However, their 34-year reign came to an end on Thursday when they were defeated 2-1 by South Africa in Casablanca. The loss eliminates Nigeria from qualifying for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil, marking their first absence from the global tournament since it began in 1991.
South Africa's victory is a significant blow to Nigerian women's football, which had long regarded the Super Falcons as the standard-bearers of the women's game in Africa. The Super Falcons had previously reached the quarter-finals at the 1999 World Cup in the United States, a performance that remains one of the best achievements by an African women's team at the tournament.
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