Super Falcons coach Uche Eucharia has invited 40 players for a special camping exercise to ascertain the level of the readiness of her players jostling for places in the squad for this year’s Fifa World Cup in Germany.

Eight goal keepers and thirty two outfield players have been invited to the camp which opens later this month.

All members of the Falcons team that won the African Women’s Championship (AWC) title in South Africa last year were invited. Several foreign and home based players who were not in South Africa were also called up.

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Coach Uche told SuperSport.com that the exercise would help her immensely as she gets into the preliminary stages of her plans for the World Cup.

“This camping exercise is the first of its kind. I call it training and screening camp. It will help me see the level of fitness of the players that I will use for the World Cup. Those that were in South Africa and those that were not will have equal opportunities to fight for shirts,” she said.

The camping exercise will last for a forth night and Uche believes she will have a full house for the programme. “We missed some players at the AWC last year because their clubs refused to release them. There will be nothing like that this time because all the foreign based players are currently on holidays here in Nigeria. That is why I chose to do this in January, she explained.”

Nigeria has been pitted against Canada, France and World Champions, Germany in group A of the Women’s world cup which begins in June.