Super Falcons forward Francisca Ordega, who plays for CSKA Moscow in the Russian Women’s Football Championship, on Tuesday said she is becoming mature physically, mentally and financially as she clocks 28.
“It’s world franny’s day. I’m taking a step at a time, getting to maturity physically, mentally and financially. Nothing is stopping me Happy birthday to me,” Ordega said in an Instagram post.
The Benue-born star is among players called for up for the 2022 Women Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against Ghana’s Black Queens on Wednesday.
Both fierce continental rivals will slug it out at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Lagos in the first leg of this fixture, which will eliminate one of the best teams in women football on the continent and render that team inactive for the next two-and-half years.
The 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations, scheduled for Morocco in the summer of next year, will also serve as the qualifying tournament for the 32-team 2023 FIFA World Cup finals in Australia and New Zealand in 2023, meaning that the team that loses out in the Ghana/Nigeria fixture will be without meaningful shooting practice until the qualifiers for the 2024 AFCON finals are activated.
Nigeria and Ghana were two of the six participating teams at last month’s maiden edition of Aisha Buhari Invitational Women’s Tournament, which also involved South Africa, Morocco, Cameroon and Mali.
