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Nigeria opens training camp for women's soccer team ahead of African Cup qualifiers

Xinhua, February 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nigeria's training camp will open on Tuesday for the women's national soccer team ahead of the second round qualifying series of the African Women Cup of Nations later this year, the Nigeria Football Federation said Monday.

A total of 40 players have been invited by head coach Florence Omagbemi to join the training camp in Abuja on Tuesday, the local football governing body said.

Nigeria, the seven-time champion of the continental tournament, is billed to slug it out with one of the senior women's teams of Senegal and Guinea, who will face each other in March first to advance to play Nigeria in a two-leg series on April 4 and April 12.

The 2016 African Women Cup of Nations will be held in Cameroon in November. Endit