Nigeria’s Super Falcons Suffer Ghana Defeat; Advance In AWCON Qualifiers Qualifiers

By Izuchukwu Okosi

The Super Falcons of Nigeria on Sunday evening advanced into the second round of the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign despite losing to the Black Queens of Ghana away.

The game played at the Accra Sports Stadium saw the home side win 1-0 but the Black Queens crashed out on a 2-1 aggregate loss.

After a goalless first half Ghana broke the deadlock in the 48th minute through Princella Adubea.

Ghana’s hopes of drawing level against the African women’s champions proved futile after captain Portia Boakye was sent off after receiving a second yellow card.

All efforts to get back into the game proved abortive as the Falcons held on to progress into the next round.

The result means Ghana will not be at the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, and 2023 FIFA women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.