FORMER Super Falcons forward, Mercy Akide Udoh, has shown interest in taking over the Super Falcons' to qualify for both the 2012 All Africa Games and the 2012 female football event of the Olympic Games in London.According to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sports reports monitored by Tribunesports, the Falcons'former striker said. she is keen on taking over the Super Falcons job following the recent setback of the team.The former African women's player of the year says she is keen working with her former international teammates, Florence Omagbemi to improve the fortunes of the team.According to her, 'I am looking forward to work with our former captain to improve the Super Falcons.' And again we are ready and we are really looking forward to it because we want Nigeria's female football to grow.We live abroad now and coaching is what we are doing for a living and helping football there to grow, then why can't we go back to Nigeria and help our team to grow,' she intoned.Under Uche Euchari the Super Falcons won their sixth African title in Niverberat South Africa 2010 (AWC). But she failed to qualified the team for the 2011 All African Games in Mozambique the first time the Falcons failed to qualify for any continental championship.Meanwhile,CAMEROUN'S coach Enow Ngatchou's was right when he told SuperSport.com in his pre-match declaration that the match between the Lionesses and the Super Falcons was merely psychological battle.This was manifest in the apprehensive attitude the Nigerian delegation accompanying the Super Falcons displayed during their stay in Cameroon.The delegation came from Nigeria with everything.The team and players could be seen with water and soft drinks from Nigeria, from the trade mark on the bottles.The bus hired by the Cameroon football federation for the team was abandoned to other members of the delegation while the players got into the bus hired by the Nigerian High Commission in Yaound.When approached for an interview with players, the Team Press Officer, Gracious Akujobi said they were not allowed to speak before the match.
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