The national women’s team of Namibia, nicknamed Brave Gladiators, will on Friday morning arrive in Nigeria for Sunday’s 2012 Olympic Games qualifying showdown with the Super Falcons.

Brave Gladiators in training

The big match is set for the National Stadium, Abuja from 4pm and Falcons’ Head Coach, Eucharia Uche has made it clear that her girls will go for nothing short of victory, to extend Nigeria’s good run in international football enacted by the national U-23 men’s team and the Super Eagles.

The U-23 team walloped their counterparts from Equatorial Guinea 5-0 in an Olympics qualifier in Benin City on Saturday before the Super Eagles spanked Ethiopia 4-0

in a Nations Cup qualifier in Abuja the following day, and followed up with a 3-0 lashing of Kenya in an international friendly also in Abuja on Tuesday. A message from the Namibia Football Association received by the NFF on Wednesday stated that the Gladiators and their officials will travel through Accra and arrive Lagos aboard an Air Nigeria flight 10am on Friday, before connecting Abuja two hours later.

There are 18 players in the Namibian delegation, namely: Albertha Dawes, Zenatha Coleman, Thomalina Adams, Vewewiza Kotjipati, Rejoice Kasaona, Stacey Naris, Marele Polster, Sussana Eises, Juliana Skrywer, Iina Katuta, Elmarie Fredericks, Shirley Cloete, Queen Manga, Stephanie Hummel, Mariana Gaebusi, Salome Iiyambo, Novata Paulus, Mangulukeni Hamata.

The delegation will be led by Titus Kunamuene, with Head Coach Jacqueline Shipanga, Assistant Coach Bryan van Staden, Technical Assistant Ricardo Manetti, Team Manager Natasha Cloete, Team doctor Hilma Ipinge and Media Officer Toyah Howarth also on the trip.

The delegation will stay at Hotel de Bentley in Abuja.

Eucharia Uche, who has organized a two-phase camping programme for her girls in the past two months, said: “We are ready for the Namibians. They cannot stop us from continuing the good run for Nigeria football.

“My girls are upbeat and in very high spirit. We will not let the nation down”.

There are eight foreign-based players  in the Falcons’ Serob Legacy Hotel, namely: Perpetua Nkwocha, Effioanwan Ekpo, Emuje Ogbiagbevha, Rita Chikwelu, Onome Ebi, Ulumma Jerome, Helen Ukaonu and Faith Ikidi.

The 22 home-based players are led by Goalkeeper and Captain Precious Dede, with Ifeanyi Chiejine, Stella Mbachu, Tochukwu Oluehi, Osinachi Ohale, Ebere Orji, Loveth Ayila, Ngozi Okobi, Francisca Ordega, Josephine Chukwunonye, Blessing Edoho, Esther Udegbe, Mary Ofukwo, Azeezat Olushola, Esther Sunday, Kelechukwu Ugochukwu, Charity Ifenko, Glory Iroka, Desire Oparanozie, Uju Okafor, Elizabeth Johnson and Gladys Akpa also in camp.

The Match Commissioner is Mrs Izetta Sombo Wesley from Liberia, while Centre Referee Fadouma Dia, 1st Assistant Ref Adia Isseu Cisse, 2nd Assistant Ref Die Alse Sylla and Fourth Official Amina Fall are all from Senegal.