Reigning Champions of the Nigeria Women Football League NWFL, Edo Queens FC\u00a0 will\u00a0 take on USFA\u00a0 FC of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, September 2nd in the semi-finals of the CAF Women\u2019s Champions League qualifying tournament in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n
The match is scheduled to hold at Stade 4AOUT Stadium Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. Kickoff time is 4pm.<\/p>\n
Edo Queens secured qualification to this stage after recording a comprehensive 7-0 thrashing of AS Garde Nationale of Niger Republic and 3-1 beating of Asec Mimosas 3-1in their first and second group B matches.<\/p>\n
The Benin based team fell to\u00a0 Ampem Darkoa Ladies FC of Ghana 2-1 on Sunday evening at the Stade Municipal 4AOUT Stadium in the last Group B game of the Qualifiers.<\/p>\n
With that defeat, Ampem Darkoa now finished top\u00a0 in Group B with 9 points while Edo Queens are second with 6 points. Both\u00a0 teams are in the semi final stage.<\/p>\n
Despite the slim defeat, the Benin girls remain the highest goal scoring side in the WAFU- B tournament .<\/p>\n
The coach Kennedy Boboye- led girls will be counting on the brilliance and attacking prowess of Chioma Moses and\u2026as they are expected to put in their all as they tackle USFA FC of Burkina Faso in a game\u00a0 that has be described by football pundits as\u00a0 battle royale.<\/p>\n
At the end of tomorrow\u2019s semifinals ,two teams that qualify will advance to the finals and a step closer to qualifying for the CAF Women\u2019s Champions League proper.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the clash,Edo Queens interim handler Coach Kennedy Boboye said that the girls have put the last group B match loss behind them and are ready to fight for what they want in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n
He said that they are mentally ready and positive ahead of the game.<\/p>\n
According to him, irrespective of the home fans\u2019 support their opponents are going to enjoy, the Nigeria girls are physically, mentally and psychologically ready to give them a run for their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning Champions of the Nigeria Women Football League NWFL, Edo Queens FC\u00a0 will\u00a0 take on USFA\u00a0 FC of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-335831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}