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Morocco 2022: Super Falcons to host Cote d’Ivoire on Valentine day

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Cote d’Ivoire surprisingly eliminated Super Falcons from the Tokyo 2020 qualifications.

Caf has released the fixtures for the second round of the qualifiers for the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations which finals will hold in Morocco next year.

After overcoming their rivals, Ghana, the Nigerians are to face Cote d’Ivoire in the next round scheduled to hold on any date from next year’s St. Valentine Day to 17 February.

For the Super Falcons it is a date with destiny as they need  to revenge their ouster from Tokyo 2020 occasioned by their inability to overcome Cote d’Ivoire in Lagos.

They played 0-0 in Abidjan, but the Falcons had to force the Ivoirians to a 1-1 draw at the Agege Stadium. Cote d’ivoire sailed through on away goal rule.

For the Morocco 2022 qualifiers, the full fixtures of the round runs thus:

First Leg (February 14 to 17, 2022)

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  • Uganda vs. Kenya
  • Burundi vs. Djibouti
  • Zambia vs. Namibia
  • Zimbabwe vs. Botswana
  • South Africa vs [winner Algeria – Sudan]
  • Tunisia vs. Equatorial Guinea
  • Togo vs. Gabon
  • Cameroon vs. Gambia
  • Senegal vs Mali
  • Guinea-Bissau vs. Burkina Faso
  • Nigeria vs Cote d’Ivoire

Return Leg (February 18 to 23, 2022)

  • Kenya vs. Uganda
  • Djibouti vs. Burundi
  • Namibia vs. Zambia
  • Botswana vs. Zimbabwe
  • [Winner Algeria – Sudan] vs. South Africa
  • Equatorial Guinea vs. Tunisia
  • Gabon vs. Togo
  • Gambia vs. Cameroon
  • Mali vs. Senegal
  • Burkina Faso vs. Guinea-Bissau
  • Cote d’Ivoire vs. Nigeria

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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