Ajibade Oluwasesan 
Following the triumphant qualification of the Super Falcons for the Paris 2024 Olympics, coach Randy Waldrum has urged both the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Minister of Sports, Senator John Enoh to sanction adequate preparations for the team ahead of the Games. Coach Waldrum conveyed his message during a post-match press briefing immediately after the Super Falcons secured their spot in the Paris 2024 Olympics with a hard-fought goalless draw against South Africa’s Banyana Banyana in Pretoria.
The team’s qualification came after an earlier 1-0 victory against their South African counterparts in the first leg, marking their return to the Olympics after a 16-year absence. Waldrum said: “My plea is to the Minister of Sports and to the Federation to help us prepare properly. We need to camp in Europe to prepare for the group we have. We need proper training. We need proper transportation. “We need to do things right because these women deserve this opportunity to represent our country in the best possible way as we know. If you look at our group, it’s the group of death.
I am already thinking about what we need to do to get ready.” The Super Falcons will battle Brazil, Spain and Japan in Group C of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games female football event. Having kept several clean sheets, Waldrum noted that the Super Falcons are good defensively but that the team needs to get better in the attack. “The team did everything we asked them to do to get the result.
We knew South Africa would come at us. We respect their strength. We respect their team very much. We know what their qualities are but I think this is our 7th or 8th clean sheets in our last 8 or 9 games. “So, we did very good defensively and I felt strong about that and with some better work, we will get better on the offensive side,” he said.
