Nigeria Suffer Embarrassing Defeat Against Canada in Tough Friendly Match

• Canadian national women's team on Saturday morning, 9 April, defeated the Super Falcons 2-0 in friendly match
• Jessie Fleming and Vanessa Gilles scored the two goals that condemned the Super Falcons of Nigeria to a defeat
• Super Falcons of Nigeria will have another chance to redeem themselves when they meet Canada again next week

Super Falcons of Nigeria in the early hours of Saturday, 9 April, suffered a 2-0 defeat against hosts Canada in the first leg of their two-legged friendly encounters.

The Nigerian national female team were without Barcelona striker Asisat Oshoala who has been stripped of her captaincy, and in her absence, strong defender Onome Ebi wore the armband.

Falcons started the encounter impressively in the first half and looked more promising even though they were unable to find the back of the net against the Canadian team.

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The first 45 minutes between Canada and the Super Falcons of Nigeria ended 0-0 with Nigerian fans expecting their players to soar in the second half.

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According to the report on Complete Sports, second half goals from Jessie Fleming and Vanessa Gilles, sealed Canada’s second ever win against the Falcons.

The game which took place inside the BC Place stadium, Vancouver, saw Canada dominate most part of the game as they created more scoring opportunities.

They will both meet again on Tuesday, 12 April at 3:30am Nigerian time, in Victoria.

Oshoala stripped of Super Falcons' captaincy as mighty reason emerges

Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Asisat Oshoala was stripped of the Super Falcons' captaincy 30 months after being handed the armband by former coach of the Nigeria's women senior national team Chris Danjuma.

In September 2019, Chris Danjuma took the Super Falcons' armband from Desire Oparanozie due to her fallout with those in charge of the Nigerian Football Federation.

Desire Oparanozie made some comments which did not go well with the country's football chiefs and an order was sent for her to be stripped of the captaincy.

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Luckily for Asisat Oshoala, she was named the captain of the Super Falcons inspired the Nigerian women team to Turkish Women's Cup triumph.

Nigerian Football authorities gave the directives and passed it to Super Falcons coach Randy Waldrum ahead of their friendly with Canadian women national team.