So the draws for the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 (Now when they were choosing the hosts,who knew France would win the Men's World Cup) was held on Saturday at La Seine Musicale on the island of Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt,Paris(Meself i don't know that place,its only PARIS i know LOL)
The Super Falcons were grouped in group A alongside France,Korea Republic and Norway.The current champions of the FIFA Women World Cup is United States winning it back in 205.
Nigeria has made an appearance in every edition of the competition since 1991 and the closest they came to winning it was the quarter finals in 1991.Now the interesting fact is for the first time a foreign coach will take the Falcons to the competiton.
Nigeria will kickstart their campaign against Norway on June 8 before facing South Korea on June 12 and then squaring up against hosts France on June 17.
The Falcons recently dropped a spot in the latest FIFA ranking released on Friday.Though they are still the highest ranked African team.They dropped to 39th in the world.
Other contries representing Africa at the tournament are AWCON finalists South Africa and Third place Cameroon
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