Nigeria’s U20 girls’s workforce, the Falconets, took a giant step towards the 2026 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup on Sunday with a 1-0 away victory over Rwanda’s She-Amavubi in Kigali.
The match on the Kigali-Pele Stadium was tightly contested, with each groups creating probabilities however failing to interrupt the impasse within the first half.
The breakthrough arrived within the seventieth minute when Alaba Olabiyi pounced on a goalmouth scramble from a nook to fit house the winner.
The outcome gave Head Coach Moses Aduku a successful begin in his first sport answerable for the Falconets, and ensured Nigeria maintain the benefit going into the return leg.
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Rwanda will now journey to Ibadan for the second leg on the Lekan Salami Stadium on Saturday, the place the Falconets will look to finish the job and advance to the subsequent qualifying spherical.
The Nigerian delegation is scheduled to return house on Monday morning.
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