The U-20 Women National Team known as Falconets has vowed not to let Nigerians down when they confront Zimbabwe in the second round, first leg of the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women World Cup qualifiers on Saturday March 31 at the MKO Abiola Stadium.

Chief Coach, Edwin Okon said on Tuesday afternoon that his girls have been motivated by the 2-1 victory of the U-17 women national team nicknamed Flamengoes against Zambia last Saturday in Lusaka.

The U-17 girls returned to Abuja on Monday evening in preparation for the return leg.
”Although it was the first leg with the second leg billed for Nigeria on March 24 also in Abeokuta, that notwithstanding it has gingered my players to win our own game,” he said.

“You can see that these East African countries are coming strongly into the game with their records in this year’s qualifiers. And we are very much aware that the Zimbabwean team this year is different from the one that we faced two years ago,” Okon said.
Two years ago, Nigeria whitewashed their East African opponent 10- 0 on goals aggregate with the first leg ending 4-0 and the return leg 6-0.

The winner of this fixture would advance into the third and final round with three Africa teams. The four countries will battle for the two slots awarded to Africa.