LAGOS Manny Machado Orioles Jersey , Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's football governing body has appointed Christopher Danjuma as Head Coach of the U20 Women National Team, the Falconets.
Danjuma will be assisted by Wemimo Matthew as 1st assistant coach, Mansur Abdullahi will be the 2nd assistant coach, while Abdul-lateef Yusuf will serve as the goalkeeper trainer.
The Nigeria Football Federation told Xinhua in Lagos that coaches are expected in Abuja on Aug. 23 to open camp for the screening of players for the FIFA U20 Women's World Cup qualifying match against Tanzania next month.
According to fixtures released by CAF, the Falconets will take on Tanzania in Nigeria on the weekend of Sept. 15 -17 while the return leg will be held in Dar es Salaam two weeks later.
The winner of both legs will then confront the winner of the fixture pairing Morocco against Senegal in November, before a final round of qualifying matches in Jan. 2018.
The Nigerian side have played in every edition of the FIFA U20 Women's World Cup Kevin Gausman Orioles Jersey , since it was launched as an U19 tournament in Canada 15 years ago.
The team reached the quarterfinals in Thailand 2004, Russia 2006 and Chile 2008, before finishing as runners-up at the 2010 finals in Germany and at the 2014 finals in Canada.
The Falconets reached the semifinals in Japan in 2012, but failed to reach the knockout stage in Papua New Guinea in 2016.
TIANJIN, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Despite being the table tennis Olympic and world champion, a women's singles title from the Chinese National Games had been out of reach for world No. 1 Ding Ning. It's the same for Zhang Jike Jonathan Schoop Orioles Jersey , the fastest "Grand Slam" collector of men's singles.
The quadrennial event gathers all active players to fight under the flag of their respective provincial teams, making the table tennis competitions the most daunting event even for the members of the all-time leading Chinese national teams.
The table tennis competition has thus been dubbed "a fight among the strongest on the planet